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• Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy of its nervous system; indeed, only coarse natures fail to discern the natural distinction of the cat.

  Champfleury

  Cat, Artist, Delicacy

  Champfleury (1885). “The Cat, Past and Present”

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• [On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little like Groucho Marx. He was as animated as a jazz-band leader, which he turned out to be. He showed us his gouaches, which were as musical as Kandinsky's, as delicate as Klee's, and as gay as Miró's.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Gay, Artist, Men

  Peggy Guggenheim (2016). “Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim”, p.164, Ravenio Books

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• If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fashion, Memories, Childhood

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• You have to work to keep love alive; you have to protect it and maintain it, just like you would a delicate flower.

  James Dobson

  Flower, Alive, Like You

  James C. Dobson (1992). “Preparing for Adolescence: Advice from One of America's Foremost Family Psychologists on how to Survive the Coming Years of Change”, Tyndale House Pub

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• There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please.

  Jim Starlin

  Action, Strategy, Force

  "The Infinity Gauntlet". Comic book, Issue 3: Preparations for War, 1991.

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• I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our ideas ruined by trash novels, praising 'fragile forms' and 'delicate beauty,' 'dainty waists,' 'snow-drop faces,' and a lot of other nonsense.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Beauty, Ideas, Snow

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• There is no room in war for delicate machinery.

  Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

  War, Rooms, Machinery

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• True hospitality is a delicate balance of warmth and form.

  Sheila Ostrander

  Balance, Hospitality, Form

  Sheila Ostrander (1968). “Etiquette for today”

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• The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.

  William Manchester

  Rocks, Color, Underwater

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• You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.

  Walter Scott

  Winter, Air, Forests

  Sir Walter Scott (1871). “Waverley Novels”, p.240

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• We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.

  Junichiro Tanizaki

  Wall, Sight, Delight

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• A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.

  Norman Mailer

  People, Democracy, Goes On

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.

  Paul Goldberger

  Strong, Space, Boeing 747

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• Hosting is an art form. Like acting, singing, or comedy hosting is a craft. It's a delicate dance of timing, the ability to read the room, and the art of conversation.

  Todd Newton

  Art, Singing, Acting

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

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• A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.

  Michael Chabon

  Men, Light, Mind

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• Twas in heaven pronounced - it was muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, / And the depth of the ocean its presence confessed. / Yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower, / Ah, breathe on it softly, it dies in an hour.

  Catherine Maria Fanshawe

  Ocean, Flower, Echoes

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• I am very strong & robust & not of the delicate sex nor of the fair but of the deficent in look.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Strong, Sex, Looks

  Marjorie Fleming (1935). “The complete Marjory Fleming: her journals, letters & verses”

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• Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony to the fact that much which he meant to convey has never been guessed at in any review of his work; and many a delicate beauty of thought, on which he principally valued himself, remains, like the statue of Isis, an image of truth from which no hand lifts the veil.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Isis, Hands

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• What I like to do is take something from a man's wardrobe and re-proportion it slightly. We've got another jacket in this collection with a smaller shoulder. It's the idea of subtle feminization, to make the clothes more delicate.

  Christophe Lemaitre

  Men, Clothes, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a great observer of delicate situations and women. I really like that bygone type of movement, and for a long time I had been looking for it.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Long, Movement, Type

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is a bodily labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Heart, Breathing, Balance

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.11, Penguin

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• It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.

  Raymond Chandler

  Delicate Things, People, Language

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.35, Grove Press

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• Fall the deep curtains,
  delicate the weave,
  fair the thread.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Art, Fall, Curtains

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.476, New Directions Publishing

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• Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

  Jean Cocteau

  Over You, Despair, Finesse

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• One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of their warmest summer's day; and then one can guess at the secret of intolerable solitude that lies hid beneath the delicate laces . . .

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Summer, Lying, Solitude

  Rebecca Harding Davis (2006). “Life in the Iron-mills: Easyread Edition”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

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