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“I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.” -- Anna Quindlen |
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“Among the many thousands of things that I have never been able to understand, one in particular stands out. That is the question of who was the first person who stood by a pile of sand and said, "You know, I bet if we took some of this and mixed it with a little potash and heated it, we could make a material that would be solid and yet transparent. We could call it glass." Call me obtuse, but you could stand me on a beach till the end of time and never would it occur to me to try to make it into windows.” -- Bill Bryson |
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“The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.” -- William Manchester |
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“The new, young, chic and acquisitive rich, the restless young Europeans and the beautiful people still flit from Palm Beach's polo fields to Newport's yachts with refueling stops at Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Tiffany.” -- Charlotte Curtis |
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“A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.” -- Newt Gringrich |
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“Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.” -- G.K. Cherterton |
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At the beach, just another day in paradise! -- Unkown |
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Ocean treasures left on the shore, Nature's gift to adore -- Unknown |
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The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. ... -- Unkown |
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"The Beach is my life. I would be lost without the sand, the rocks, and the water." -- Unknown |
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