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Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. Lynn Abbey | top
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. Charles Baudelaire | top
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In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America! Poppy Z. Brite | top
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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. Luis Bunuel | top
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! Robert Burns | top
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Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all. John Cleese | top
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But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well. Fernando Flores | top
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all. Maggie Gallagher | top
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Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. Theophile Gautier | top
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We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended. Brit Hume | top
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I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. Guillermo Cabrera Infante | top
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Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world. Polykarp Kusch | top
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Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. George Henry Lewes | top
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | top
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It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. Arthur Machen | top
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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. Jacques Maritain | top
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I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter. Freddie Mercury | top
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Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. Duane Michals | top
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Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past. James Montgomery | top
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It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it. Georgia O'Keeffe | top
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I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair. James Patterson | top
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Edgar Allan Poe | top
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Carl Sagan | top
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It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea. John Millington Synge | top
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The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite. Vladimir Zhirinovsky | top
