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«Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.»
«The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.»
«There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
afternoon, afternoons, attended, bored, correspondence, Correspondences, further, pages
«Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language»
Author: Henry James
| About:
Beauty,
Language,
Words
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afternoon, English, English language, summer, summers, the English
«There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea»
Author: Henry James
| Keywords:
afternoon, afternoons, afternoon tea, agreeable, ceremony, dedicated, dedicates, dedicating, hours, known as, tea
«The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.»
Author: Lance Morrow
(Essayist, Journalist)
| About:
America and Americans
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afternoon, American culture, bats, flap, flapped, flapping, flaps, Kennedy, malign, maligned, November, The Wild, trap, trap door
«The pleasures of afternoon tea run like a trickle of honey through English literature from Rupert Brooke's wistful lines on the Old Vicarage at Grantchester to Miss Marple, calmly dissecting a case over tea cakes at a seaside hotel.»
«There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.»
Author: Saul Bellow
(Novelist)
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afternoon, disturbance, disturbances, heart a, I Tried, spoke, suppress
«The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.»
«There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams ? no through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion?»
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