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If you take a vine and cut it back and back again, it grows hard, like a tree".
For sure, Sardinia grows hard wheat whose flour, semolina, has too much gluten to roll into thin noodles and is therefore made into rough shapes by hand.
There are stretches in the first act of George Balanchine's "Midsummer Night's Dream" when it grows hard to care for its bumbling human characters, all so blind to the woodland magic enveloping them in the darkness.
The cats grow wet and skinny, and the rain grows hard and bitter, as if it is not rain but the liquid redistribution of collective conflict; it's a frigid rain, a rain that pricks the skin of any upturned face, a damning rain that makes men eke corks from bottles.
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And freedom grows harder with age.
But that fiction grows harder to maintain.
The ethnic minority vote grows harder than ever to predict.
Every day, the theatre grows harder to save.
But the task of repairing it grows harder the longer it is delayed.
As investors and voters lose faith, the task of saving the single currency grows harder.
And the cycle of false hunger and very real eating grows harder to break.
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