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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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"Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known."
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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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"There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die."
Will
"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves."
Trust
"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology."
Science
"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
People
"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."
Man
"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
Art
"Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts."
Music
"Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste."
Man
"I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
People
"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."
Power
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