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I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur.


Graham Swift

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TAYLOR SWIFT Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relati...
TAYLOR SWIFT You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thou...
TAYLOR SWIFT It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that yo...
TAYLOR SWIFT Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
JONATHAN SWIFT As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
JONATHAN SWIFT No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from...
JONATHAN SWIFT There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
JONATHAN SWIFT Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest ...
JONATHAN SWIFT There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
JONATHAN SWIFT Books, the children of the brain.
JONATHAN SWIFT Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their ow...
JONATHAN SWIFT One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinv...
TAYLOR SWIFT I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. ...
TAYLOR SWIFT People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when ...
TAYLOR SWIFT My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. ...
TAYLOR SWIFT I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of y...
TAYLOR SWIFT When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate...
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