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• Abe swept in, resplendent in a gray and yellow suit that coordinated bafflingly well with Adrian's paint job.

  Richelle Mead

  Jobs, Yellow, Suits

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.263, Penguin

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• I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and to paint you a smoky eye she's merely trying to enroll you in a beauty contest she's already won. It's a kind of slummy, condescending gesture, like when rich people ask poor people where they summer. To me, this smacks of a blatant, insensitive "let them eat cake" type of chauvinism.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Summer, Girl, Nice

  "Damned". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.

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• He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.

  Tanith Lee

  Portraits, Gestures, Made

  Tanith Lee (2014). “Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition”, p.57, Wildside Press LLC

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• Evil is nothing but a word, an objectification where no objectification is necessary. Cast aside this notion of some external agency as the source of inconceivable inhumanity - the sad truth is our possession of an innate proclivity towards indifference, towards deliberate denial of mercy, towards disengaging all that is moral within us. But if that is too dire , let's call it evil. And paint it with fire and venom.

  Steven Erikson

  Fire, Agency, Evil

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• With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down and read every word. Because one important thing that can be learned by reading slowly is the seemingly obvious but oddly underappreciated fact that language is the medium we use in much the same way a composer uses notes, the way a painter uses paint. I realize it may seem obvious, but it’s surprising how easily we lose sight of the fact that words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.

  Francine Prose

  Reading, Sight, Temptation

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• The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.

  Anne Carson

  Beautiful, Animal, Mad

  Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.88, Vintage

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• Love demands patience, desire is restless; What color shall I paint the heart, until you savage it? You shall not ignore me when the time comes, I know, but I may turn to dust before the news reaches you.

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Heart, Dust, Color

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• * to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be it by painting or writing. * to know that millions of others are unhappy and that life is a gentleman's agreement to grin and paint your face gay so others will feel they are silly to be unhappy, and try to catch the contagion of joy, while inside so many are dying of bitterness and unfulfillment.

  Sylvia Plath

  Silly, Writing, Gay

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• The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering around a sleeping wino. No place or person is immune to spirit. Look hard enough, and everything has a story. Everybody is important."- Jilly Coppercorn

  Charles de Lint

  Sleep, Important, Looks

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.508, Macmillan

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• Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Men, Years

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.165, Univ of California Press

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• Peeta crouches down on the other side of her and strokes her hair. When he begins to speak in a soft voice, it seems almost nonsensical, but the words aren’t for me. “With my paint box at home, I can make every color imaginable. Pink. As pale as a baby’s skin. Or as deep as rhubarb. Green like spring grass. Blue that shimmers like ice on water.

  Suzanne Collins

  Baby, Spring, Home

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.312, Scholastic Inc.

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• It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Responsibility, Animal

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.

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• Staring at him the way she might stare at a beloved place she was not sure she would ever see again, trying to commit the details to memory, to paint them on the backs of her eyelids that she might see it when she shut her eyes to sleep.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memories, Sleep, Eye

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.467, Simon and Schuster

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• In the center was a tiny handprint in red paint.

  J.R. Ward

  Handprints, Red, Tiny

  J. R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: Number 10 in series”, p.429, Hachette UK

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• Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

  Ralph Ellison

  Men, Eagles, Purple

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.152, Vintage

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• Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Humility, Humble, Pride

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• It was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest, splashing color everywhere. Red. Red. Red. Dozens of them: black feathers coated thickly with crimson-colored paint, fluttering among the branches. Red means run.

  Lauren Oliver

  Running, Struggle, Mean

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• The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

  Seth Godin

  Leadership, Believe, Simple

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.108, Penguin

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• I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.

  Cassandra Clare

  War, Blood, Play

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2118, Simon and Schuster

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• After being taught sets and reps and working at it for a length of time you can't paint by numbers anymore. It must come from within. Any artist has an emotional contact with their work. A true bodybuilder doesn't just build muscle he creates muscle. You can't be a robot.

  Tom Platz

  Workout, Emotional, Artist

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• His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs

  Melina Marchetta

  Father, Half, Towns

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• Old Rose: It's been 84 years, and I can still smell the fresh paint. The china had never been used. The sheets had never been slept in. Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.

  James Cameron

  Dream, Years, Smell

  "Titanic". www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books.

  Richard Scarry

  Children, Book, Artist

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• As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Artist, Ideas, Effort

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• Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Hair, Mad, Soul

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