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«Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.»
«I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.»
«As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't»
«We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.»
«I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.»
«May the devil make a ladder of your backbone - While he is picking apples in the garden of Hell»
«If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd be picking roses for a lifetime.»
«When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if she'd ever just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.»
«One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring»