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Letter "C" » carpets
«It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.»
«A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way»
«Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture ... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture ... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.»
Author: Margaret Drabble
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affluence, carpets, coconut, coconuts, furniture, infancy, pad, padded, subsistence, texture, threadbare, utility
«Imagination is the true magic carpet.»
«If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.»
Author: Rumer Godden
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Books
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carpet, carpets, Persian, Persians, stitch, stitching, The Persians
«All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.»
«My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.»
«Sing-Sing has several men who were sent there simply because they had Axminster desires and rag-carpet capacities»
«To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind»
«In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight»
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