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Image, When did “sentimental” become a pejorative barb? I do not at all

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When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a poem, or a film that bypasses the brain and aims straight for the heart . . . should automatically be heaped with scorn. I think it is symptomatic of a sad and dangerous impoverishment of spirit.

—Bill Richardson

Image, The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper

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The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

—John Hawkes

Image, I’ve been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her

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I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it.

—Jeanne Tripplehorn

Image, Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.

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Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.

—Texas Bix Bender

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Image, If you got to castrate your miser’ble self with a piece o’ rusty barb wire, do it.

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If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it.

—Fred Phelps

Image, There are some of us who in after years say to Fate,

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There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

—Olive Schreiner

Image, We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially

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We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.

—D. H. Lawrence

Image, There’s no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature – the

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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

—Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Image, How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although

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How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?

—Arthur Golden

Image, There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was

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There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category.

—Barbara Mikulski

Image, Behind the gentle barb lies the deadly barb.

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Behind the gentle barb lies the deadly barb.

—Haitian

Image, The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

—Walter Savage Landor

Image, Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart.

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Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

—Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

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Image, I’ve been working on barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman.

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I’ve been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She’s incredibly strong; she’s incredibly generous. She’s seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it.

—Jeanne Tripplehorn

Image, There is no more steely barb than that of the infinite.

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There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

—Charles Baudelaire