#gall

I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener. ↗

— Carla Bley

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They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors! ↗

— Nellie Bly

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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

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I drink a gallon of water a day. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

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