"I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime."

Observation, Despair, Isolation, Madness, Crime

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"She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her a history and she'd disappear.Eric Packer about Vija Kinski."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

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"His lips made a grim twist that was like the joyless cousin of a smile."

Laini Taylor, American Novelist

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"This visit has compacted the court's quarrels and intrigues, trapped them in the small space within the town's walls. The travelers have become as intimate with each other as cards in a pack: contiguous, but their paper eyes blind."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

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"She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor."

Khaled Hosseini, Afghan Novelist

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"When you enter a room, a social situation, or a business meeting, be mindful of cues; read between the lines to better understand people and events. What do these things tell you?"

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"You wouldn't recognize a good thing if it was spanking your ass."

Kresley Cole, American Author

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"I just know Maycomb. I'm not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I'm certainly aware of it."

Harper Lee, American Novelist

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"Blonde hair drawn into a no - nonsense bun, her new manicure the deep red of fresh blood, she'd even donned a blouse and slacks for the occasion, something Neve had forgotten Veronica owned."

Katherine McIntyre, American Novelist

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"Even at a time like this, the street is bright enough and filled with people coming and going-people with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Women and elephants never forget."

Dorothy Parker, American Poet

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"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."

Perseverance

"Still there is a calm pure harmony and music inside of me."

Harmony

"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it."

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"Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."

Conviction

"Well, what shall I say; our inward thoughts, do they ever show outwardly? There may be a great fire in our soul, but no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a little bit of smoke coming through the chimney, and pass on their way."

Introspection

"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures."

Nature

"I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends."

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"She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her a history and she'd disappear.Eric Packer about Vija Kinski."

"His lips made a grim twist that was like the joyless cousin of a smile."

"This visit has compacted the court's quarrels and intrigues, trapped them in the small space within the town's walls. The travelers have become as intimate with each other as cards in a pack: contiguous, but their paper eyes blind."

"She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor."

"When you enter a room, a social situation, or a business meeting, be mindful of cues; read between the lines to better understand people and events. What do these things tell you?"

"You wouldn't recognize a good thing if it was spanking your ass."

"I just know Maycomb. I'm not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I'm certainly aware of it."

"Blonde hair drawn into a no - nonsense bun, her new manicure the deep red of fresh blood, she'd even donned a blouse and slacks for the occasion, something Neve had forgotten Veronica owned."

"Even at a time like this, the street is bright enough and filled with people coming and going-people with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward."

"Women and elephants never forget."

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"Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."

"Well, what shall I say; our inward thoughts, do they ever show outwardly? There may be a great fire in our soul, but no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a little bit of smoke coming through the chimney, and pass on their way."

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"I am seeking I am striving I am in it with all my heart."

"There is safety in the very heart of danger."

"I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends."