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In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.


Whittaker Chambers


#i #impossible #like #return

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.


Arthur C. Clarke


#adjust #bathroom #best #his #honesty

You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.


Camille Claudel


#arm #black #every #feel #generous

When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.


Hillary Clinton


#army #barely #before #begins #deployment

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.


Charles Caleb Colton


#books #cease #chosen #fail #few

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.


Charles Caleb Colton


#bodies #change #climate #customs #empty

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.


Christopher Columbus


#april #because #could #desire #discoveries

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.


Cyril Connolly


#card #consulted #control #disorder #memories

We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.


Calvin Coolidge


#came #draw #i #i came #i wish

First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.


Robert Creeley


#book #contingent #first #form #heroine






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