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“That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.”

Want Stuff Doors Reader Taste Authority Awful Editors Publishers Obsolete

Author:Walter Jon Williams

“Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing Torture is positively paid to sing.”

Giving Different Doors Taste Paid Torture Different Things Dozen Positively

Book:Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc

Source: Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc

“Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can open up doors to their soul that might otherwise remain shut tight.”

Soul Might Artist Choices Doors Objects Lovers Taste Obsession Revealing Our Choices

Author:Vince Aletti

“What if the Church and the State Are the mob that howls at the door! Wine shall run thick to the end, Bread taste sour.”

Ifs Ends States Government Running Church Doors Taste Wine Bread What If Thick Sour Howl

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“I carried Rudy softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder at comforting. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“The door closed behind her (Phoebe), and the two men regarded each other for a moment. Viktor spoke first. "I must have your promise, Coach, that you won't hurt her." Dan: "I won't." Viktor: "You spoke a little too quickly for my taste. I don't quite believe you." Dan: "I'm a man of my word, and I promise I won't hurt her." He flexed his hands. "When I murder her, I'll do it real quick so she won't feel a thing." Viktor sighed. "That's exactly what I was afraid of.”

Men Feels Firsts Believe Littles Two Real Moments Hands Hurt Behinds Doors Promise Taste Murder Coaches Spokes I Promise

Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.”

Ifs Knows Moments Difficult Know How Doors Comfort Taste Notion Abundance Within Reach Difficult Moments Apricots

Author:Isabel Allende

“She spent an afternoon staring at their front door. Waiting for someone? Yankel asked. What color is this? He stood very close to the door, letting the end of his nose touch the peephole. He licked the wood and joked, It certainly tastes like red. Yes, it is red, isn't it? Seems so. She buried her head in her hands. But couldn't it be just a bit more red?”

Ends Hands Seems Bits Waiting Doors Fronts Color Taste Red Woods Noses Staring Buried Afternoon Front Doors Peepholes

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should never be: ‘Do I like that kind of service?’ but ‘Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper?”

Should Kind Doe Moving Doors Particular Pride Please Taste Conscience Asking Mere Paint Dues Doctrine Holiness Dislike Keepers Reluctance True Ones

Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“I tap a Malediction out of the box, fire it up, and puff. It tastes like a tire fire in a candy factory next door to a strip club. The best cigarettes ever.”

Next Fire Doors Taste Boxes Clubs Factories Cigarette Candy Tire Puff Malediction

Author:Richard Kadrey

“She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed. What he said, what she said, what they did, what they did then. Even the times they argued, fought, parted, agonized, rejoined. How they’d loved to cut themselves on each other, taste their own blood. We were ruinous together, she thinks. But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?”

Thinking Said Together Spirit Walks Cities Cutting Imagine Doors Blood Taste Bed Salvation Ruins These Days Midst Stairs Labyrinth Mazes Rendezvous

Book:The Blind Assassin: A Novel

Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel