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“It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.”

Happens Would Be Used Behinds Feet Particular Towns China Screens Village Contests Curtains Beauty Contest

Author:Lisa See

“I do not see in what way the face of a man should be a less interesting landscape than any other. A man, the physical person of a man, is a little world, like any other a country, with its towns, and suburbs.. ..As a rule what is needed in a portrait is a great deal of the general, and very little of the particular.”

Men World Way Should Littles Persons Country Faces Interesting Deals Particular Needed Towns Landscape Portraits Suburbs

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one.”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.”

People Book Remember Used House Happened Particular Towns Cathedrals

Author:James Hilton

“Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.”

World Natural Space Particular Towns Setting Settings Marvelous Small Town Natural World Texture Exhilarating Small Town Life Open Spaces Marvelous Things

Author:Susan Orlean

“All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.”

Home Reality Reading Grows Born Family Growing Up Particular Towns Neighborhood Small Town Clans

Author:Chaim Potok

“I’d spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms of the woman I was destined to love, knowing the people and doing the work that would make up the changing but essentially invariable landscape of my particular destiny.”

People Whole Home Waiting Destiny Morning Knowing Particular Arms Ordinary Towns Whole Life Landscape Awake Destined

Book:Wonder Boys

Source: Wonder Boys

“She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that particular business; you hope it is comfortable, but prefer, rather, that it be anoymous. It is not, after all, where you live.”

People Way Life Needs Left Rooms Particular Comfortable Majors Consequence Towns Hotel Schemes Convenience Convenient Hotel Rooms Where You Live She Left Me

Author:Toni Morrison

“A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He has given up his life to his temple and his god. This is a very excellent thing for the internal vigour of his own priesthood, his own temple. He lives and dies for the honour of his particular god. But in the next town or village is another temple with another god. It is his constant preoccupation to keep his people from that god. Religious cults and priesthoods are sectarian by nature; they will convert, they will overcome, but they will never coalesce.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)

“The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.”

Mind Moments Energy Environment Particular Blessing Towns Blame Boring Tendencies Bored Boredom Dull That Moment Speakers Bores

Author:Wayne Dyer