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"Woe to my sister, false Helen!"
(Unknown. Binnorie; or, The Two Sisters (l. 55). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
(Sophocles (497-406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Fragments, l. 663.)
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You're a good man, sister.
(John Huston (1906-1987), U.S. filmmaker. Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), The Maltese Falcon, to Effie Perine, his loyal and shrewd secretary, who effectively covers for Spade in a tight spot (1941).
Based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett.)
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Evelyn Mulwray: She's my daughter.
J.J. Gittes: I said I want the truth!
Evelyn Mulwray: She's my sister. She's my daughter. My sister, my daughter.
J.J. Gittes: I said I want the truth!
Evelyn Mulwray: She's my sister and my daughter!
(Robert Towne (b. 1936), U.S. screenwriter. Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway), J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson), Chinatown, revealing the identity of Kathryn (Belinda Montgomery) (1974).
Gittes slaps Mulwray five times during this exchange.)
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Listen, sister. I don't dance and I can't take time out now to learn.
(Frank W. Wead (1895?-1947), U.S. screenwriter, and John Ford. Lt. Rusty Ryan (John Wayne), They Were Expendable, reply to nurse Lt. Sandy Davis (Donna Reed), who invites him to a dance (1945).
Based on the book by William L. White.)
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of the satanic thistle that raises its horned symmetry
flowering above sister grass-daisies' pink tiny
bloomlets angelic as lightbulbs—
(Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Wales Visitation (l. 14-16). . .
Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.)
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Then gently scan your brother Man,
Still gentler sister Woman;
Though they may gang a kennin wrang,
To step aside is human:
(Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet. Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous (l. 49-52). . .
Burns; Complete Poems and Songs. James Kinsley, ed. (1969) Oxford University Press.)
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It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. Everybody's Autobiography, ch. 3, Random House (1937).)
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So haste not,
bright meteor;
waste not strength,
O fair planet,
singing-sister.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "The Dancer.")
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Father calls me William, sister calls me Will,
Mother calls me Willie, but the fellers call me Bill!
(Eugene Field (1850-1895), U.S. poet, humorist. Jest 'fore Christmas (l. 29-36). . .
One Hundred and One Famous Poems. Roy J. Cook, comp. (Rev. ed., 1958) Reilly & Lee Company; reprinted 1981 by Contemporary Books.)
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