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A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of rebelliousness and constriction that I take to be Oedipal.
John Updike
Pulse
Philip
Take
Containing
Mix
Begins
Room
Whirl
Noticed
Roth
I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.
Allan Carr
Time
Good
Thought
College
Gave
Spending
All My Time
Would
Would-Be
Pretty
Pretty Good
About
My Time
Performing
Performing Arts
Doing
Just
Arts
Whirl
I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.
Gene Tierney
Work
Hard Work
Own
Fathers
Ways
Sacrifices
Known
Justified
Social
Whirl
Hard
What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.
Ronnie Dunn
You
Creativity
People
Insanity
Think
Air
Those
Out
Fine
Fine Line
Rational
Between
Around
Line
Lot
Grabbing
Closest
Artistry
Process
Formula
Whirl
Even
Things
When I look at Lake Michigan each July, I imagine the men of the Indianapolis visible on the horizon; dark heads, struggling arms, a cry and whirl of a world being remade. I feel an overwhelming sense of sadness, accompanied by a desire to yell out that they will be rescued.
Doug Stanton
World
Dark
Sadness
Will
Men
Overwhelming
Sense
Visible
Out
Horizon
Remade
Struggling
Feel
Heads
Look
Cry
Arms
Accompanied
Yell
July
Michigan
Being
Lake
Whirl
Rescued
Each
Desire
Imagine