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«There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?»
«Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.»
Author: H. G. Bohn | About: Violence | Keywords: rattle, throat
«The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart.»
«They can rattle off the Manhattan telephone directory unerringly time after time, which no human can do, but they cannot begin to distinguish one face from another, as babies can do»
«County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?»
«Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.»
«I fall to my knees, shake a rattle at the sky, I'm afraid that I'll be taken, abandoned, and forsaken in her cold coffee eyes.»
«He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer.»
«Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.»
«Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.»