Stendhal
Novelist
"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."
Describing quotes
Describing
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Benjamin Stone
Politician
"I don't think I can get anywhere near to fully describing what love is."
Charles Kennedy
Politician
"You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers."
Richard P. Feynman
Physicist
"While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that."
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