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«Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.»
«All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.»
Author: Judith Crist
(Critic)
| Keywords:
criticize, criticizes, indifference, loves, pleasantry, Strangers, surface, surfaced, surfaces
«After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of that one [what women want]. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.»
Author: Mel Gibson
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Marriage,
Men and Women
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«Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.»
«Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.»
Author: Nicholson Baker
| Keywords:
finer, footnote, footnotes, hold fast, paragraphing, paragraphs, suckered, surfaces, testicular, The Library, wider
«Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?»
Author: Richard Corliss
| Keywords:
challenging, essences, surfaces, The Skin, undress, undressed, undresses, undressing
«Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
better half, creatures, decreed, decreeing, flock, good and, mankind, miserable, mud, One half, persecutor, pile, piles, pile up, piling, pronounce, pronouncing, surface, surfaced, surfaces, surface of, The Pile, thrown
«PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work: the ancients painted their statues. The only present alliance between the two arts is that the modern painter chisels his patrons.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
alliance, ancients, art critic, chisels, chisel in, combined, exposing, formerly, patrons, protecting, surfaces
«My upbringing made me as I am now. But I can become merry and happy at once. There were many years I was feeling at a loss about my life or how I grew up. I couldn't understand what is right or what is precious. At that time, I was so miserable and self-defeating. I was feeling angry with various things. My anger came up to the surface then. I don't say such tendency has disappeared. Even now there are anger and the dark side in myself. But it's the first time I've been so close to the light.»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
| Keywords:
angry, at a loss, at once, came, close to, closing time, Dark Side, Dark Side of the, defeating, disappeared, first light, grew, loss, make merry, merrier, merry, miserable, precious, self-defeating, surface, surfaces, tendency, The Dark, The Light, The More the Merrier, upbringing, various
«All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.»
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