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Dorothy Parker Poet, Writer, Critic
Window

"[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are."

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Window

"Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me."

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Marcel Proust Novelist
Window

"Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen."

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"There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees."

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Joseph Joubert Essayist, Moralist
Window

"There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard."

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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist
Window

"most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Window

"Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end"

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