#closest

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture. ↗

— Sonny Terry

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But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream. ↗

— Jason Mraz

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It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living. ↗

— Dave Thomas

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I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet. ↗

— Jon Postel

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I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault. ↗

— Branch Rickey

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I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself. ↗

— Nastassja Kinski

#always #closest #feel #feeling #fullest

I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

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I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. ↗

— Phyllis Theroux

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