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"In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop."
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"She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn."
"Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others."
"The little man gave the big one a look. One of his eyes was green, one was black, and both were cool."
"Her face is silting up, like a pond; layers are accumulating. Every once in a while, when she can afford the time, she spends a few days at a spa north of the city, drinking vegetable juice and having ultrasound treatments, in search of her original face, the one she knows is under there somewhere; she comes back feeling toned up and virtuous, and hungry."
"Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside.It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well."
"We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes."
"Huge biceps are an unattractive-uneducated-underpaid man's last attempt to be seen as worthy of dating, or, sleeping with."
"Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling."
"Though Queen Victoria in England had suggested that makeup was impolite, even vanity, Gideon saw it as yet another weapon. It was not so different from magic."
"He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!""
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"The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon."
"Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk."
"A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death."
"For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting."
"Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony."
"You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it."
"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous."
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