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“The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup.”

Should Mean Ends Self Use Morning Food Expression Personality Cooking Edges Cooks Meals Soup Pondering Self Expression Chins

Author:Rebecca West

“Shahid has grown increasingly committed to the art of indignation, waking up in the morning with an expression of incipient disgust already in stock for all the affronts he will surely encounter during the course of the day.”

Art Courses Morning Expression Personality Wake Up Committed Encounters Waking Disgusting Indignation Waking Up In The Morning

Book:Meatless Days

Source: Meatless Days

“I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.--Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.”

Want Love Courses Morning Personality Bird Wings Fishes Being True Fishing Swim Swimming Fear Of Love

Book:The Plumed Serpent

Source: The Plumed Serpent

“I do share with the lieutenant (Columbo) one very pronounced part of his personality - he loves to talk about his wife. You can't shut him up. I have the same problem. I can tell Shera stories till three in the morning. Shera is my wife.”

I Can Stories Problem Three Morning Wife Share Personality My Wife Lieutenants

Author:Peter Falk

“Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.”

People Giving Walks Morning Minutes Personality Ocean Blue Brilliant Italian Pot Asian Melting Suburbs Sydney Eclectic Melting Pot Eclectic Style Blue Ocean

Author:Baz Luhrmann

“Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.”

Morning Events Personality Birth Findings Absolutes Originals Oneself Awakening Proof Unprecedented Saddles Finding Oneself

Book:Bend Sinister

Source: Bend Sinister

“Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.”

Thinking Giving Feels Seems Age Morning Worry Worst Personality Calling Moon Losing Twenties Golden Melancholy Warmth Fifteen Persist Worthless Brilliance Radiance Early Morning

Book:This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“Further, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect of impotence. Until that moment, although I'd had some trouble with his personality, I had not thought him totally lacking in perspicacity; now I was not all sure. Putting myself in Dr. Gold's shoes, I wondered if he seriously thought that this juiceless and ravaged semi-invalid with the shuffle and the ancient wheeze woke up each morning from his Halcion sleep eager for carnal fun.”

Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness