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Alcohol removes inhibitions - like that scared little mouse who got drunk and shook his whiskers and shouted: "Now bring on that damn cat!"


Eleanor Early

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TERENCE T. GORSKI He'd stopped trying to bring her back.
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AESOP I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Bring a child and ignore your inhibitions.
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RAINBOW ROWELL It's going to be okay.
Right.
Because I love you.
Is that why?
It is, actually.
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THEY GET BEGINN...
RAINBOW ROWELL I just want to break that song into pieces," she said, "and love them all to death.
RAINBOW ROWELL It's our last chance.

No. No, I can't... I, no, I need to believe that it isn't our last ...
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NEIL GAIMAN Looking back few friends had we
but I've got him and he's got me.
And when the golden minu...
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SHERRILYN KENYON Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.
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GEORGE TSARGAS "NOW THAT IT'S OVER" I'm sorry that I'm not updating my Facebook status, my cat ate my mouse.
ANONYMOUS Growing up I was told that the early bird got the worm and I would always answer back "Well the seco...
ARMANDO RODRIGUEZ JR «Qualunque cosa succeda, io non tornerò mai a casa» disse lei risoluta.
«Lo so.»
Ele...
RAINBOW ROWELL We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don't give a damn whether they or we are s...
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GARTH NIX Henry shook his head, 'I was drunk,' he said, trying to sound both ashamed and firm in this belief. ...
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU She got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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JEANIENE FROST That's what vampires do, Kitten. We always come for what's ours, no matter the circumstances." Bones...
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JEANIENE FROST We came out a little slow, but we got that early goal and that gave us a little confidence.
ANNELISE LEGEL ...slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.
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MATRAISA BEECRAFT And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautifu...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It's a cat-and-mouse game with the pharmaceutical companies. They are extremely powerful.
ANDY TROSZOK The mouse never takes the advice from the cat.
VIKRANT PARSAI Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.
FIONA APPLE The world turned itself into a better place around him.
RAINBOW ROWELL Crew up, Nailer!" Lucky Girl shouted. "You think I'm going to pull your ass up here like a damn swan...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his he...
JOHN STEINBECK It's going to be okay," Park said.

She nodded. "Right."

"Because I love you."<...
RAINBOW ROWELL I just meant that... I want to be the last person who ever kisses you, too... That sounds bad, like ...
RAINBOW ROWELL He smiled, surprised. 'This is for me?'
'No,' she said, 'it's...' She couldn't think of anythin...
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RAINBOW ROWELL I love Italian opera -- it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn De...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Someone told me early on that whenever you get a question that you don't like, say, 'That reminds me...
THOMAS CAHILL I love the sort of cat and mouse with Denny Crane and that's really fun to play,
CANDICE BERGEN I am ever a gentle maiden," she shouted. "Damn if I'm not.
JULIE GARWOOD He was desperate to tell his news to some other cat; he almost felt that if a mouse crossed his path...
ERIN HUNTER Mr Cobb was my escort. Such a nice escort, Mr Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. I...
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JACK STEPHENSON He had a broad face and a little round belly, That shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly...
CLEMENT C. MOORE, LL.D. He had a broad face and a little round belly, that shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.
CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE Jace shook his blond head in exasperation.
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CRAIG FLAAGAN Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions.
MICHAEL MUSTO Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
EARL DERR BIGGERS When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby.
NIGERIAN PROVERB What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse
GERMAN PROVERB The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game...
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DENISE FLAIM Hey... you gonna ignore me like that?
...

Forever?
...

You gonna rej...
DEYTH BANGER Damn, damn, damn," she said. "I never said why I like you, and now I have to go."
"That's okay,...
RAINBOW ROWELL Mice are very difficult to do front on, but they have nicely human little hands and feet, and whiske...
HELEN CRAIG When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby
NIGERIAN PROVERB When the cat mourns for the mouse do not take her seriously
JAPANESE PROVERB He's two-for-two now. I think his leadership and being able to get off to an early start like that h...
CHRIS CARLISLE Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You...
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BRIAN NICHOLS This is a fierce bad rabbit;
look at his savage whiskers,
and his claws and his turned-u...
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
ELEANOR CLIFT The giving of love is an education in itself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most u...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You must do the things you think you cannot do.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Can...
ELEANOR CATTON A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've create...
ELEANOR CATTON Astrology's a moving system that depends on where you're looking at it from on Earth. My hor...
ELEANOR CATTON Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so c...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domi...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damne...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.
ELEANOR CATTON I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its pro...
ELEANOR CATTON I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas.
ELEANOR MONDALE A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.
ELEANOR MONDALE Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good...
ELEANOR CATTON When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and...
ELEANOR CATTON I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve proble...
ELEANOR CATTON I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one...
ELEANOR CATTON Morning has broken like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for th...
ELEANOR FARJEON Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.
ELEANOR FARJEON The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found sign...
ELEANOR ACER One of the biggest problems is that it lacks any meaningful safeguards, so that mistakes can and do ...
ELEANOR ACER It's become much more difficult to win asylum and if an immigration officer issues a mistaken decisi...
ELEANOR ACER This country was founded on the concept of asylum that you never return those who flee persecution t...
ELEANOR ACER The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than mos...
ELEANOR MONDALE