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When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.


Emma Donoghue


#colors #description

As always, there was an all-American war hero look to him, coded in his tousled brown hair, his summer-narrowed hazel eyes, the straight nose that ancient Anglo-Saxons had graciously passed on to him. Everything about him suggested valor and power and a firm handshake.


Maggie Stiefvater


#gansey #description

...killing rats wasn’t in my job description.


Scott Douglas


#library #quiet-please #description

Era d'altronde uno di quegli uomini che amano assistere alla propria vita, ritenendo impropria qualsiasi ambizione a viverla. Si sarà notato che essi osservano il loro destino nel modo in cui, i più, sono soliti osservare una giornata di pioggia.


Alessandro Baricco


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Masculinity is simply a conglomeration of the personality traits necessary for the patriarchal soldier-rapist: physically strong, emotionally cauterized, rational, domineering, cruel. All of this is supposed to add up to "handsome" as well. Likewise femininity is ultimately a description of the personality that results from trauma and powerlessness: weak, passive, yielding, emotional, hyper-vigilant to the needs of the dominators and desperate for the dominator's attention.


Lierre Keith


#femininity #masculinity #patriarchy #rape #description

The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.


Susanna Clarke


#screams #simile #simile

Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.


Hilary Mantel


#description

With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?


F. Murray Abraham


#ask #beautiful #could #descriptions #ever

Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.


Gregory Bateson


#aptly #combined #description #enrichment #illustrate

The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.


Ruben Blades


#city #descriptions #everybody #grandmother #identified






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