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Famous quotes containing the words gain and/or blood:

    “Beauty for some provides escape,
    Who gain a happiness in eyeing
    The gorgeous buttocks of the ape
    Or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    “Those times I mussed his curly black hair
    and touched his ten tar-fingers
    and swallowed down his whiskey breath.
    Red. Red. Father, you are blood red.
    Father,
    we are two birds on fire.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)