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«It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.»
«I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.»
Author: E. B. White | Keywords: arise, improve, morning, plan, torn| Occasions: T-Shirt
«Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness»
«I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.»
«Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.»
Author: Irvin S. Cobb | About: Humor | Keywords: torn
«However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.»
Author: Muriel Rukeyser (Writer) | Keywords: confused, faced, scene, torn
«For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world. I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: ''I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.''»
«Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.»
«If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: torn
«I don't want it torn down. I think it's the greatest monstrosity in America.»

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