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It took me ten years to write a proper story. I floundered about trying to shape something, counting on the 'feeling' I had as I wrote, only to discover upon rereading my work that the feeling had disappeared, and what remained was an empty shell.

~David Bergen

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Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

~David Copperfield

Topics: Demonic Disappeared Figures Magic Modern Occult Themes

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Ellis Island lies in New York Harbor 1,300 feet from Jersey City, New Jersey, and one mile from the tip of Manhattan. At the time of the first European settlement, it was mostly mud, sand, and oyster shells, which nearly disappeared at high tide.

~David Souter

Topics: City Disappeared European Feet First Harbor High Island Jersey Lies Manhattan Mile Mostly Mud Nearly New New Jersey New York Sand Settlement Shells Tide Time Tip Which York Oyster

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As a fair skinned blonde, I disappeared into the background. I've always been a loner, so I suppose dyeing my hair red was a way to say, 'I'm here, I exist, I'm a human being and you can't just push me aside.'

~Deborah Ann Woll

Topics: Always Aside Background Been Being Blonde Disappeared Exist Fair Hair Here Human Human Being Just Loner Me Push Red Say Skinned Suppose Way You

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The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.

~Donna Brazile

Topics: Balance Balances Benefit Check Checks Competing Congress Create Disappeared Districts Excess Explanation Founders Ground Intended Interests Media Middle Middle Ground Neither Nor Offer Our Partial People Politics Principles Seem Why Would

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You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Absolutely British British Empire Could Disappeared Empire Empires End Ever Girl Idea Inconceivable Just Know Like Other You

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What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Books Disappeared In The Past Learning Literature Much Now Ordinary Ordinary People Past People Realize Respect Respected Serious Society Very Whole

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When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: About Absolutely Always British British Empire Could Countries Disappeared Empire Empires End European European Countries Ever Forget Girl Had Idea Inconceivable Just Know Like Other People Talk You

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Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange, exotic creature - he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Been Bowie Creature Disappeared Emerged Enigma Exotic He Inherit Long Long Time Mind Public Seems Someone Strange Then Time Tradition Who

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Up until the 1960s, women would meet designers in their private ateliers, and together they would build a relationship and a wardrobe. Then, all of a sudden, designers disappeared into their own private bubble, and there was no communication.

~Edgardo Osorio

Topics: Bubble Build Communication Designers Disappeared Meet Own Private Relationship Sudden Then Together Until Up Wardrobe Women Would 1960S

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