Quotes with retreating

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• Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

  ― Norman Mailer
  American writer (1923 - 2007)
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• I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

  ― T. S. Eliot
  British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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• We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

  ― Douglas Macarthur
  American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• retreating
• brilliance
• reassured
• christmas
• direction
• another

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