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The Water

«Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way. These are all spoken not just to yourself but»
«I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath.»
«It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway»
«I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because the water is cold in there. And I'm like, how did my mother know that?»
«If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you»
«Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water.»
«In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.»
«If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge''»
«And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.»
«Don't stand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net»

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