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«I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packed more sex than two naked bodies in bed»

«Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars»

«Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.»

«Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.»

«The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It's cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.»

«He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime»

«Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, /where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!»

«The place was packed as full of smells as a bale is of cotton.»