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Letter "D" » dozen
«What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books»
«With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.»
Author: Lope de Vega
| About:
Living,
Simplicity
| Keywords:
dozen, half a dozen, half dozen, picture book
«When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
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artistic, ball, dozen, emotional, half a dozen, half dozen, intensity, movement, performance, pitcher, reaches, similar, The Movement, tone
«What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?»
Author: Nikita Khrushchev
| About:
Innocence
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damsel, damsels, dozen, illegitimate, illegitimate child
«You can only help one of your luckless brothers By trampling down a dozen others»
«What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
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corpus, dozen, duplicate, duplicated, duplicates, duplicating, in parallel, paralleled, quantity, remembered, robotics, surpassed, The Foundation, The three, trilogy, variety
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