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“If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?”

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John Irving is an American novelist known for his intricate narrative structures and profound character development. His works often explore themes of family, love, morality, and identity, enjoying great popularity among readers. more

“The retriever took each bit of meat from his master's hand with a delicacy almost equal to that of a hummingbird sipping sugar water from a garden feeder, and when it was all gone, he gazed up at Dusty with an adoration that could not have been much less than the love with which the angels regard God.”

Has Beens Hands Bits Water Gone Masters Equal Angel Garden Regard Meat Sugar Adoration Delicacy Hummingbirds Sipping Retrievers

Book:False Memory

Source: False Memory

“Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books spine, grape-colored whales spouted blood around a newspaper item (pasted in) listing arrivals to the endangered spieces list. Six hatchlings cried from shattered shells near an entry made on Easter. Cecilia had filled the pages with a profusion of colors and curlicues, candyland ladders and striped shamrocks.”

Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

“The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold.”

Sky Cold Shots Window Gold Blue Gray

Author:J. K. Rowling

“A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.”

Window Shells Jewels Tortoises

Author:J. K. Rowling

“The Forbidden Forest looked as though it had been enchanted, each tree smattered with silver, and Hagrid's cabin looked like an iced cake.”

Tree Forests Silver Cake Forbidden Enchanted Cabins Hagrid

Author:J. K. Rowling

“He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had ever experienced. One tap gushed pink and blue bubbles the size of footballs; another poured ice-white foam so thick that Harry thought it would have supported his weight if he'd cared to test it; a third sent heavily perfumed purple clouds hovering over the surface of the water. Harry amused himself for a while turning the taps on and off, particularly enjoying the effect of one whose jet bounced off the surface of the water in large arcs.”

Ifs Different Enjoy Water White Effects Football Tests Thirds Weight Blue Clouds Size Surface Ice Bubbles Thick Purple Baths Jet Arcs Amused And Off Foam Hovering Bubble Bath

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen." [From a column dated November 17, 1928]”

Men World Way Happens Beautiful Wife Youth Fairs Intelligence Brilliant Tales Feds Beautiful Women Columns November Flocks Forsake Old Wives Tales

Book:A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by

Source: A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by

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