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We find stuff all the time, but what's sort of eerie about this is that this is a bridge that thousands of people go over each day. They walk over it, cars go over it, and this stuff was just sitting there.


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IRIS MURDOCH I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I l...
IRIS APFEL ...lace is formed from the absence of substance; it is imagined in the spaces between the threads. L...
IRIS ANTHONY Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn t...
IRIS MURDOCH I was never a fan of Chanel. I liked it on other people. Some other people. All the ladies who were ...
IRIS APFEL Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of th...
IRIS APFEL You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy thi...
IRIS APFEL As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
IRIS CHANG Love generates, or rather reveals, something which may be called absolute charm. In the beloved noth...
IRIS MURDOCH The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more ...
IRIS MURDOCH Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ...
IRIS MURDOCH I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail, those...
IRIS MURDOCH Where you are,there I'll be.Make up your mind to it.You may not love me now bt you will.I'll see to ...
IRIS JOHANSEN Little Charlie was delivered by a C-section and not expected to live. I'm a widow with no children ....
IRIS TANNER I don't know if someone thought they were rescuing them from a hot car or what. I'm offering a rewar...
IRIS TANNER It's very basic -- look for a dumpster that has stuff in it, climb in, and see what you can find.
IRIS PEPPAR It's fun, it thwarts capitalism, and it pays directly in useful stuff instead of having that useless...
IRIS PEPPAR We want to let people shop in peace and dignity. I don't want to be standing over people telling the...
IRIS PEPPAR