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• As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep

  Edith Wharton

  Wife, Long, House

  Edith Wharton (2006). “The Age of Innocence”, p.148, OUP Oxford

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• Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.

  Jean Genet

  Giving, World, Shapes

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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• Some hats can only be worn if you're willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a spring in your stride as if you're only a step away from dancing. They demand a lot of you.

  Neil Gaiman

  Spring, Dancing, Demand

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier.

  Margaret Atwood

  School, People, Different

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• I'd rather see the world from a different angle.

  Jewel

  Different, World, Different Angles

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• I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  World, Made, I Can

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.300, Macmillan

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• The angle of entry of the ball equals the angle of release. You cannot deny the laws of science.

  Ed Palubinskas

  Law, Balls, Deny

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• To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Artist, And Love

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• Do you ever wonder if what you look at is the same thing everyone else is seeing?' He went even stiller at her side. 'Sometimes I'm sure it isn't the same...but that's not so bad is it? Seeing the world in a different way?' Creative vision creates art' he motioned around the gallery 'that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's a beautiful thing.

  Melissa Marr

  Beautiful, Art, Creative

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• I think there's no harm, sometimes, to feel on the edge of things. If you're on the margins you can see a bigger picture. And I actually quite like standing at a peculiar angle to the universe.

  Dermot Bolger

  Thinking, Peculiar, Sometimes

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• I looked him in the eye, "I will always love you." Then plunged the stake into his chest. It wasn't as precise a blow as I would have liked, not with the skilled way he was dodging. I struggled to get the stake in deep enough to his heart, unsure if I could do it from this angle. Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one. "That's what I was supposed to say..." he gasped out.

  Richelle Mead

  Struggle, Love You, Heart

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• I read as much as I could, but really just spoke to Chris Chibnall and asked all the pertinent questions. That made me feel like we weren't going to do an off-the-peg Camelot, which has been touched upon in many films and TV series before. I really just picked his brain and, in doing so, I got fired up by tackling Merlin in a fresher angle.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Pertinent Questions, Brain, Tvs

  "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.

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• It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Suicide, Distance, Eye

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1999). “The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader”, p.5, University of Virginia Press

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• I see that you are working this vampire angle with some success. And kudos. Lots of girls love that sensitive-undead thing. But I'd drop the whole musician angle if I were you. Vampire rock stars are played out, and besides, you can't possible be very good.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Stars, Rocks

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1275, Simon and Schuster

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• It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.

  Jess Row

  Writing, Race, White

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• ...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

  Edmundo Desnoes

  Photography, Lying, Literature

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• [With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.

  Thomas Demand

  Forever, Vision, Moments

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• But there's times when I like to find the strange angles to something. People go, 'I heard a lot of jokes like that, but that's one of the most interesting takes I heard.' That's what I try to do.

  Godfrey

  People, Interesting, Trying

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• I think it go serious in college when I found out I really enjoyed making people laugh. It makes me happy. I said, I wanna be a comedian, I wanna get good.' You're not good in the beginning. You're still trying to figure out what the things are that you are going to talk about, what your angle is going to be and there's a lot of trial and error. I just never gave up and that was the beginning of my career. Just experimenting, trying it out and falling in love with it.

  Bill Bellamy

  Falling In Love, College, Thinking

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• I could really appreciate him now - could properly see every beautiful line of his perfect face, of his long, flawless body with my strong new eyes, every angle and every plane of him. I could taste his pure, vivid scent on my tongue and feel the unbelievable silkiness of his marble skin under my sensitive fingertips.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Beautiful, Strong, Eye

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• Business model innovation is constant in this economy. You start with a vision of a platform. For a while, you think there's a line of sight, and then it's gone. There's suddenly a new angle.

  Beth Comstock

  Thinking, Sight, Innovation

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• British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast out there, they are so used to the angle from which the Americans, and certainly the young guys from LA, are coming at it, that I think it's interesting for them to find these English actors who maybe approach acting from a different place.

  Jim Sturgess

  Thinking, Interesting, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was the kid in the class who was looking for the angles to question things or make wise-ass remarks, not knowing enough to be afraid of being myself or showing intelligence. But I wasn't the only kid like that in my classes because of where I grew up. I'm really thankful I grew up in a town where there were a lot of other mutant kids. I'm from Boulder, Colorado, which went through a lot of dramatic changes when I was growing up.

  Jello Biafra

  Wise, Growing Up, Kids

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study of the highest interest and so varied that I think I could be occupied for months without changing my place, simply bending a little more to the right or left.

  Paul Cezanne

  Thinking, Rivers, Giving

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• The angles even
  Draw strength from gazing on its glance,
  Though none its meaning fathom may;
  The world's unwither'd countenance
  Is bright as at creation's day.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  May, Sun, Gazing

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