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Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.


P.D. James

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JAMES MADISON The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is t...
JAMES MADISON I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinate...
JAMES MADISON It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the ...
JAMES MADISON A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue t...
JAMES MADISON Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
JAMES THURBER Love is what you've been through with somebody.
JAMES THURBER Buy a book in brown paper
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To see Annie Liffey trip, tumble and caper. JAMES JOYCE British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut....
JAMES PUREFOY Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanat...
JAMES SINEGAL I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, '...
JAMES BAY I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.
JAMES PUREFOY No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruct...
JAMES LARKIN