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Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.
Mao Zedong
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Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.
Aldous Huxley
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Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
Amy Hempel
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Don't you see all the people sinking down? Don't you care? Are you gonna let them drown?
Keith Green
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Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.
Violette Leduc
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Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.
Johannes Tauler
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If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I chased money, pretended to be someone else to get it. It got easier the longer I did it... but that's the trap, see? When the deadness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.
Lucy Christopher
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And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
Bob Dylan
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It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.
Hannah Webster Foster
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There's nothing better than sinking into my feather pillows after a hard day's work.
Kirsten Prout
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You don't integrate with a sinking ship.
Malcolm X
15.
History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.
Bret Easton Ellis
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Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.
Warren Buffett
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I loved sinking my head into Cary Grant's chest.
Jean Arthur
21.
Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.
Lee Iacocca
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We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.
Samuel Johnson
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It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.
Sarah Dessen
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When anything doesn't hit with a huge laugh, as comics, it feels like, Oh no, oh no, we're sinking.
Tim Heidecker