"A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."
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"I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?"
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"There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous."
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"One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like."
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"By the next one [albom],Occupation: Foole, I was right back into the trip again. I'm more frantic, more breathless. You can hear how sick I am. If you want to see a cokehead, just look at the pictures on the Occupation: Foole album."
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"Here's a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. They say that if 2 planes almost collide, it's a near miss. Bullshit, my friend. It's a near hit! A collision is a near miss. [WHAM! CRUNCH!] "Look, they nearly missed!" "Yes, but not quite."
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"Did you ever look at your watch, and you look away... and you don't know what time it is?"
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"The person who is most a part of me is the performer, is the standup, the guy who says, "Hey look at me, listen to this!" I do that because that's what I do, I love doing it."
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"The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves."
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"I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out o' my mouth for things, when I know I should have a heavy conscience after 'em. I've seen pretty clear, ever since I could cast up a sum, as you can never do what's wrong without breeding sin and trouble more than you can ever see. It's like a bit o' bad workmanship--you never see th' end o' the mischief it'll do. And it's a poor look-out to come into the world to make your fellow creatures worse off instead o' better."
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"In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in."
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"Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are."
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"If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed."
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"We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings."
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"If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial."
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"What does a mirror look at?"
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"Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself."
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"I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring."
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"If you look toward the sunshine, you will never see the shadows."
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"The more women looke in their glasse, the lesse they looke to their house. [The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house.]"
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