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Dire Straits Quotes

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Mark Knopfler
“Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start. / When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?”
― Mark Knopfler
tags: dire-straits, mark-knopfler, pop-rock, rock, romeo-and-juliet, song, song-lyrics
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Jeffrey Fry
“You sometimes need to be in dire straits to find out who is loyal to you.”
― Jeffrey Fry
tags: dire-straits, find-out, loyal, need, sometimes
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Jael McHenry
“This is home, it's the only place I want to be, but at the same time everything familiar feels strange. It's the same as it ever was except without the people who most belong here.”
― Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter)
tags: dire-straits, family, home, love
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Ursula K. Le Guin
“He looked at me. His firm, broad face showed weight-loss in deep shadows under the cheekbones, his eyes were sunken and his mouth sorely chapped and cracked. God knows what I looked like, when he looked like that. He smiled. 'With luck we shall make it, and without luck we shall not.' ”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
tags: dire-straits, luck
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“I roll my eyes at him then pick up the phone. ‘Do you have his number?’

He reels it off from memory. My surprise must have shown on my face, because he comments, ‘I can chew gum and walk at the same time too.”
― Harper Helen
tags: dire-straits
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Trent Lindsey
“Their situation is extremely tense, strung like the tautest tightrope, and could be cut with the dullest blade.”
― Trent Lindsey, Those Wyrd and Wonderful
tags: dire-straits, tense
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