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«A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.»
Author: Anita Brookner
(Author, Historian)
| Keywords:
come to light, duplicity, engage, flat, justification, self-justification
«Flat-out flatness, the hard line of the horizon. I like the little towns with their handfuls of buildings huddled close to the grain elevators, like medieval towns clustered around their cathedrals.»
«But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat»
Author: Molly Haskell
(Author, Critic)
| Keywords:
affect, attributes, flat, highs, introduce, landscape, lows, previously, rhythmic, The Variations, variation, variations
«In a flat country a hillock thinks itself a mountain.»
«I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.»
«I don't like your miserable lonely single ''front name.'' It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
afloat, bad blood, bad hat, blood relation, flat, jacket, meager, One Blood, sense of responsibility, threadbare, versatility, wear down, weighted, worn
«A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.»
«A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.»
«I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
| Keywords:
acres, an orange, castles, Disneyland, flat, Groves, In a Grove, orange tree, rocket, rockets, ships, site, sites, The Rocket, walnut, walnut tree
«Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.»
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