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"She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else."
"I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live."
"Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride."
"We read to know we are not alone."
"The thing I can't resist is a pork pie. That's my idea of a lovely treat."
"All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND."
"One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain."
"Darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream."
"I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten"
"The Australian accent just a very lovely accent and it doesn't have the pretention maybe of an English accent, but yet seems a little bit more exotic than an American."
"How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?"
"To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June"
"A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella."
"I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries."
"Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging."
"It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them."
"Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky."
"How lovely it is to live with a sense of community. To live where you can drop in the street and a million people will come and help you."
"It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'"
"Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all."
