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• As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore frilly lingerie but never have any money to buy outer clothing.

  Edith Head

  Shoes, Weakness, Lingerie

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• The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

  Daniel Dennett

  Home, Rocks, Sea

  Consciousness Explained ch. 7 (1991)

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• It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

  Edvard Munch

  Artist, Rooms, Intention

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• All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Typewriters, Dining

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• Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other forms of writing but not for dialogue. Another mistake is speechifying. Three sentences at a time is tops, yet many beginners write speeches that go on and on.

  Sol Stein

  Mistake, Writing, Beginners

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• The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

  Richard Steele

  Marriage, Wedding, Heaven

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1841). “The Spectator: with sketches of the lives of the authors, an index, and explanatory notes”

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• I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Art, Struggle, Understanding

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• Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Soccer, Football

  Quoted in Alvin Redman The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde (1952).

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• I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Believe, Book, Ideas

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• But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit.

  Franz Kafka

  Moving, Air, Hopelessness

  Franz Kafka (1972). “The Metamorphosis”

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• So much wanting and longing, clutching, desiring, passion and hatred and terrible need. Here, death was suitable, there was room for it, the grip of life's relentless urges slackened, replaced by this icy simplicity. This wasnt her death. It was his. That was the sad and honest truth. Though it would stay with her, it would be more like a black onyx heart on a silver chain, worn privately, under her clothes, close to her body, all her life. The guilt, the beauty, everything. It wasnt over, it had only begun. Well ok then, Okay.

  Janet Fitch

  Passion, Heart, Clothes

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• Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me.

  Luigi Pirandello

  House, Wish, Achieve

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• After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.

  Martin Filler

  Political, Charity, Shelter

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• Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Enlightenment, Body

  "Inspire! What Great Leaders Do" by Lance Secretan, (p. 45), 2004.

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• Of course none of those men was suitable. Half were after your fortune, and as for the other half—well, you would have reduced them to tears within a month.” “Such tenderness for your youngest child,” Hyacinth muttered. “It quite undoes me.

  Julia Quinn

  Children, Men, Tears

  Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

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• I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.

  Karen Armstrong

  People, Nun

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• The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.

  Teresa of Avila

  Christian, Prayer, Caring

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1995). “The Interior Castle”, Harpercollins

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• Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

  Honore de Balzac

  Suicide, Keys, Paris

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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• Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.

  Tinie Tempah

  Artist, Style, Nicknames

  "One last thing... Tinie Tempah". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2010.

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• Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits.

  Graydon Carter

  Would Be, Deposits, Parlor

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No enunciation of the Truth will ever be complete, no method of training will ever be suitable for all temperaments, no one can do more than mark out the little plot of infinity which he intends to cultivate, and thrust in the spade, trusting that the soil may eventually be fruitful and free from weeds so far as the bounds he has set himself extend.

  Dion Fortune

  Weed, Training, Plot

  Dion Fortune (2017). “Esoteric Orders And Their Work”, p.78, Youcanprint

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• A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

  Lucian Freud

  Art, Taste, Obsession

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century." This happened before the First World War and it wasn't just the soldiers. You can see it happening if you read the Bloomsbury biographies. It was a reaction to a great extent against Victorianism. There was so much that was repressive and stuffy. Victorian buildings were associated with it, and they were regarded as very ugly. Even when they weren't ugly, people made them ugly. They were painted hideously.

  Jane Jacobs

  War, Ideas, People

  Interview with James Kunstler for Metropolis Magazine, March 2001.

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• What if I was the sexual equivalent of popcorn? Suitable for light snacking only?

  Rachel Vincent

  Light, What If, Popcorn

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “My Soul to Save”, p.193, Harlequin

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• When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

  Jim Bishop

  Patience, Two, Car

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