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"She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand."
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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."
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"Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others."
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"The little man gave the big one a look. One of his eyes was green, one was black, and both were cool."
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"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."
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"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."
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"We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes."
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"Huge biceps are an unattractive-uneducated-underpaid man's last attempt to be seen as worthy of dating, or, sleeping with."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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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"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned."
People
"All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac."
Woman
"A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out."
Man
"In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California."
Los Angeles
"Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand."
Psychoanalysis
"She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand."
Appearance
"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life."
Life
"Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately."
Naivety
"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."
Nation
"What is art but a way of seeing?"
Art
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