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Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?

William Shakespeare
Song, Imagination, Gorges
'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [201]

The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in order . . . Seventh Avenue was the gorge into which Harlem cliff dwellers crowded to promenade.

Wallace Thurman
Order, Gorges, Shrines

Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

Jack Kerouac
Wisdom, Mind, Gorges
Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.

Plautus
Greek, Gorges, Drink
"Mostellaria" by Mostellaria, Act I, scene 1, lines 61-62,

This is what I love about the Kimberley... wild gorges, fresh water and there's always a chance of a barra taking your lure.

Malcolm Douglas
Water, Gorges, Chance

Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.

Mark Twain
Mind, Gorges, Trouble
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.11, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

Ishmael
Gorges, Woe, Madness

Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy

Djuna Barnes
Doubting Everything, Looks, Gorges
Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.67, Faber & Faber

Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.

Joseph Heller
Luck, Gold, Gorges
Joseph Heller (1997). “Good as Gold”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice.

Melina Marchetta
Echoes, Voice, Gorges

The Thanksgiving tradition is, we gorge. Hey, what about at Thanksgiving we simply consume a considerable measure? However we do that consistently! Goodness. Imagine a scenario where we consume a ton with individuals who pester the heck out of us.

Jim Gaffigan
Thanksgiving, Gorges, Hey

The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.

Bill Moyers
War, Gorges, Unyielding
"Bill Moyers on His Legendary Journalism Career: 'Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, www.democracynow.org. June 8, 2011.

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