"Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane."
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"Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea."
"Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes."
"But you lied again. Now you get to watch her leave out the window. Guess that's why they call it 'window pane."
"There will be time to murder and create."
"Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window."
"There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away."
"Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold."