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Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. Lynn Abbey | top
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. Charles Baudelaire | top
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The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness. Edwin Booth | top
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It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy. James Boswell | top
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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. Luis Bunuel | top
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The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature. Samuel Taylor Coleridge | top
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Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can. Stanley Crouch | top
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all. Maggie Gallagher | top
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Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. Theophile Gautier | top
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In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. Edward Everett Hale | top
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table. Alfred Hitchcock | top
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. Langston Hughes | top
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I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. Guillermo Cabrera Infante | top
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Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world. Polykarp Kusch | top
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Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. George Henry Lewes | top
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | top
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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. Jacques Maritain | top
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I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter. Freddie Mercury | top
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Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. Duane Michals | top
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Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past. James Montgomery | top
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It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it. Georgia O'Keeffe | top
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I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair. James Patterson | top
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But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep. Karl Shapiro | top
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It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea. John Millington Synge | top
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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal. Voltaire | top