"A general flavour of mild decay but nothing local as one may say."

Atmosphere, Decay, Time, Life

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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

God

"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

Wisdom

"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."

Thought

"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."

Friendship

"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."

Truth

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

Life

"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

Man

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"A few fires flickered, plumes of dark smoke marring the ruby sky."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

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"Sad hotels existed everywhere, to be sure, but the Dolphin was in a class of its own. The Dolphin Hotel was conceptually sorry. The Dolphin Hotel was tragic."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes."

Marie Corelli, British Novelist

Atmosphere, Fancy, Listening, London, Open

"The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it."

Christopher Columbus, Italian Explorer

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"Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn."

Mary Higgins Clark, American Author

Atmosphere, Dawn, Sense

"A general flavour of mild decay but nothing local as one may say."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Atmosphere, Decay, Time, Life

"When they came it was as if the lord of the world had arrived, and had brought all the glories of its kingdoms along; and when they went they left a calm behind which was like the deep sleep which follows an orgy."

Mark Twain, American Author

Atmosphere, Arrival, Glory, Calm, Sleep

"It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right."

Barry Levinson, American Director

Atmosphere, Moments, Right

"All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me."

Barry Levinson, American Director

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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."

"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."

"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."

"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."

"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

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"A few fires flickered, plumes of dark smoke marring the ruby sky."

"Sad hotels existed everywhere, to be sure, but the Dolphin was in a class of its own. The Dolphin Hotel was conceptually sorry. The Dolphin Hotel was tragic."

"The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones."

"Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes."

"The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it."

"Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn."

"A general flavour of mild decay but nothing local as one may say."

"When they came it was as if the lord of the world had arrived, and had brought all the glories of its kingdoms along; and when they went they left a calm behind which was like the deep sleep which follows an orgy."

"It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right."

"All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me."