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He's been — he's like a family member, you know that, and he could have, or he would have... What were you thinking, for Christ's sake?" Thinking?
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"Publication for its own sake" buries real thinking and perhaps even original writing.
"For fuck's sake!" he shouted, thinking his microphone was out of range.
She fascinates in her own right: first, as a girl reciting Nabokov by heart when, in 1923, she makes her first approach to the aristocratic Cambridge-educated writer, already well known among Russian expatriates in Berlin; ever thereafter until Nabokov's death in 1977 as the provider of the comforts he needed, as he told her, "for the sake of not thinking about them".
A number of recent books have lauded the connection between walking - just for its own sake - and thinking.
Did you even stay longer in a marriage you would have otherwise ended for the sake of the kids (thinking that two parents are better than one)?
Sanjuro had already put away two sakes and he was thinking about ordering a beer — or splitting one with Colin, because he was going to have to switch to tea, eventually, to straighten himself out for the drive home.
It started people thinking about drinking sake cold.
In a contemplative corner of the temple grounds, the monks are thinking, laughing, drinking sake and even picking their noses.
"It's not a question of doing things differently just for the sake of it, but conventional thinking, behaviour and appearance will only get you so far.
For the sake of more talking, more thinking, more dialogue, we shouldn't let that prize slip out of our grasp".
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