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One quick snort and the pharmaceutical worm burrows deeper into my heart.


Jonathan Douglas Duran

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IAN IJH HOWELL Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.
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ERICA JONG I love him, I worship him. I masturbate to Duran Duran videos.
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DEE REMY The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your lif...
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT My name is Tre Cool, ....and i snort donut sprinkles,......kind of a sweet drain.
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STEPHANIE GRANGER My grandfather was the first building inspector for Douglas County.
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E. E. CUMMINGS You walked into my heart, Without my permission
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LLOYD C. DOUGLAS My father-in-law, Kirk Douglas, is going to be my research engine,
LANA TURNER Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!
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G. WILLOW WILSON Whenever the party-girl tag gets attached to my name, it makes me want to snort with derision.
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AUTUMN REESER Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each ...
SAID NURSI One day I realized, without God, nothing matters. So, I asked Him into my heart.
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EDGAR RAMIREZ Before you dive in head first, make sure the water is not shallow.
KATHERINE DIVOLIS My pond life with hydra is over; now I’m into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper..
MUNIA KHAN God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
P. D. JAMES God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
SWEDISH PROVERB We play in the den of the Gods and snort at death.
MAY SWENSON I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart.
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CORY SAPP Each one goes deeper. You know you really get into it. It is quite a good read,
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GURINDER CHADHA I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.
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DENISE ANDERSON Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa...
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VINCENT VAN GOGH We are concerned. They are competing with other animals for food, space, burrows, crevices and rocks...
SKIP SNOW I love Bobby Douglas. When you think of wrestling, you think of Coach Douglas.
CAEL SANDERSON If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table....
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ANDY TAYLOR Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart.
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ROB SHEFFIELD Yeah, my father is an egotistical douchebag," he says roughly. "My name literally means Jonathan emp...
KRISTA RITCHIE The early bird who catches the worm works for someone who comes in late and owns the worm farm.
TRAVIS MCGEE I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.
VINCENT VAN GOGH The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Thro...
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JONATHAN SWIFT Come, agree, the law's costly.
JONATHAN SWIFT There's none so blind as they that won't see.
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; wh...
JONATHAN SWIFT Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte...
JONATHAN RABAN But when a Man
JONATHAN SWIFT Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
JONATHAN SWIFT There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r...
JONATHAN EDWARDS Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstr...
JONATHAN MILLER Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
JONATHAN EDWARDS I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ...
JONATHAN SWIFT Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
JONATHAN SWIFT Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...
JONATHAN SWIFT I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
JONATHAN SWIFT It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
JONATHAN GASH Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
JONATHAN SWIFT Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positi...
JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.
JONATHAN SWIFT