![I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-told-personal-stories-the-way-bill-cosby-would-spin-a-yarn-for-ten-minutes-i.jpg)
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thinking self starting-out
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Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.
thinking giving people
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thinking protection incumbency
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thinking issues giving
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thinking rights color
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yarn brain accuracy
It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us. Daniel Dennett
yarn people trying
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yarn facts ends
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yarn benches parks
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yarn knitting bird
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yarn fiction legends
No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts. Wallace Stegner
long healthy healthy-life
In a long and healthy life, which is what most of us have, there is plenty of time.
long lucky wonderful
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long battle trying
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long care ceo
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long periods
I've often stopped working for long periods. Carl Andre
long desire beloved
Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek. C. S. Lewis
long feelings promise
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long speak
Who are you?' One who has waited long for you to speak.
long twenties syllables
They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.