#decay

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed. ↗

— John Bachman

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My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions. ↗

— James Joyce

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Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay. ↗

— Robert Blair

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I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay. ↗

— Bob Dylan

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I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

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When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays. ↗

— James Cronin

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

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Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism. ↗

— Wim Wenders

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Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least. ↗

— George Whitefield

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