"It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air."
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"There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good."
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"Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death."
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"I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir."
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"Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris."
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"When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily."
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"The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time."
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"A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches Where light pushes through; A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air. A dip to the water."
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"You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard."
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"If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground."
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"We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener."
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"Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs."
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"People happy in love have an air of intensity."
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"There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements they could not feel. 'Not a bird!' said Sam mournfully. 'No, no birds,' said Gollum. 'Nice birds!' He licked his teeth. 'No birds here. There are snakeses, wormses, things in the pools. Lots of things, lots of nasty things. No birds,' he ended sadly. Sam looked at him with distaste."
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"Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land."
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"There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around a blossom of fire. When I stand upright in the wind, My bones turn to dark emeralds."
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"The air is all softness."
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"I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?"
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"Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame."
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"Music is to the mind as air is to the body."
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