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He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.


Barbara Castle

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I'm attaching myself to you. Because I'm a kid.
Spoil...
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-Norah, Nick & Nor...
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GEORGE FLINT his hands and bolted down his pitiful supper. The moment he had finished, Aunt Petunia whisked away ...
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SUZANNE COLLINS Well, I've always been a bit freaked out by manmade pools of water-the drain, like a pit in the eart...
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JANICE MOHR What? Don't you want a girl who can talk dirty to you?"
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JOANITA KYAKUWA Intrusive, thoughtless people!" said K. as he turned back into the room. The supervisor may have agr...
FRANZ KAFKA He who digs a pit for others must invariably fall into it.
ESAN MAGAZINE I FELL DEEP down in there, until this bright light raised me from sleep. Coming out of a pit such as...
DANIEL WOODRELL We were walking down to the pit to dance, ... Then it went off. People were running and screaming. I...
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MIKE DWIGHT His house had floated down the street.
JOE NARCISSE God's good. He can just pull a life out of a pit, can't He?
BETH MOORE People are going beyond the barbecue pit.
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DALE BLANEY His bread and butter is his sinker, ... He couldn't get it down. We had to use other pitches.
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BARBARA SHER Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
BARBARA SHER Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
BARBARA SHER Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recogni...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Wat...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
BARBARA ROSENBLAT Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
BARBARA PYM How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should t...
BARBARA PYM I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a c...
BARBARA PARK My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that ...
BARBARA PARK My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how de...
BARBARA PARK I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
BARBARA PARK My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to...
BARBARA PARK I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
BARBARA PARK