Quotes with stains

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  • Antonio Tabucchi Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Irving Layton If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
    Irving Layton
    Canadian poet (1912 - 2006)
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  • Bill Bryson If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.
    A Walk in the Woods
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Peter Ackroyd There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Berthold Auerbach When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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