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“You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are.”

Inspirational House Buddhism Empty Caught Boxes Trapped Not Happy Empty Houses

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare.”

Knows Needs Looks Book Bigs Space Imagine Wall Pages Empty Mirrors Boxes Over You Thick Elegant

Author:Carter Ratcliff

“Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full.”

Enough Bigs Empty Boxes Thrown

Book:Carl Sandburg

Source: Carl Sandburg

“Life is a storeroom filled with boxes, some empty, some misplaced forever. We're what remains, what we've grabbed hold of.”

Life Is Forever Empty Remains Filled Boxes Misplaced

Author:Margaret Mazzantini

“The trouble with taxonomic boxes is... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside.”

Beautiful Trouble Empty Boxes

Book:Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms

Source: Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms

“A bag of apples, a pot of homemade jam, a scribbled note, a bunch of golden flowers, a coloured pebble, a box of seedlings, an empty scent bottle for the children. . . . Who needs diamonds and van-delivered bouquets?”

Needs Children Flower Gratitude Empty Notes Boxes Bunch Golden Apples Bags Bottles Pot Diamond Scent Vans Jam Pebbles Homemade Bouquets Seedlings

Author:Pam Brown

“Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.”

Empty Absolutes Infinite Boxes Nothingness Infinite Potential

Author:Adyashanti

“The character [Maigret] is bound to change and develop, and I wouldn't like to claim that we are perfectly formed straight out of the box. I think it's what I'd call an 'optimistic start'. As you know, for me, no glass is anything other than half empty, so I apologise for my reticence in terms of promoting this programme.”

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Author:Rowan Atkinson

“It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.”

Mind Too Much Empty Boxes Chocolate Bedroom Drawers Box Of Chocolates

Book:The Portable Graham Greene

Source: The Portable Graham Greene

“I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.”

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Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life