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"He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon."
"Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure."
"His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my cheeks. "I still don't understand," he says softly, "how she knew that it would work."
"Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having."
"If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander."
"Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face."
"We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it."
"The fearful face usually betrays great guilt."
"If sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret. Though you must also manage to avoid it or your life will be ruined."
"I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces."
"O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend."
"If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly."
"I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems our nation faces, and I am prepared to tell you it's in a hell of a mess-we're not connected to the press room yet, are we?"
"Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't."
"Contain all human faces in your own without any judgment of them"
"We are the mirror - As well as the face in it."
"All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face."
"There's something about lonely nights and my lipstick on your face"
"Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and reflecting that Lucy's idea of sympathty compared unfavourably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo."
"Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face."
