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“Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.”

Turns Morning Staring Every Morning Typewriters Shuddering

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.”

Turns Painter Idiot Staring Canvas Idiotic Blank Canvas

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“I sat staring up at a shelf in my workroom from which thirty-one books identically dressed in neat dark green leather stared back at me with a sort of cold hostility like children who resent their parents. Don't stare at us like that! they said. Don't blame us if we didn't turn out to be the perfection you expected. We didn't ask to be brought into the world.”

Ifs World Children Said Book Turns Asks Parent Dark Cold Perfection Blame Green Expected Staring Thirty Sat They Said Shelves Hostility Leather Neat Resent

Book:A Kind of Magic

Source: A Kind of Magic

“New York is where it is going to begin, I think. You can see it coming. The insect experts have learned how it works with locusts. Until locust population reaches a certain density, they all act like any grasshoppers. When the critical point is reached, they turn savage and swarm, and try to eat the world. We're nearing a critical point. One day soon two strangers will bump into each other at high noon in the middle of New York. But this time they won't snarl and go on. They will stop and stare and then leap at each others”

Thinking World Trying Two Certain Turns Middle New York Goes On One Day Population Stranger Critical Staring Experts Leap Savages Insects Noon Bumps Density Swarms Grasshoppers

Author:John D. MacDonald