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Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone. — Flip Wilson
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts… — Virginia Woolf
There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick… — Charles Dickens
For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood. — Mitch Albom
...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God… — Victor Hugo
A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating.… — Bret Easton Ellis
I woke with a terrible headache and wobbled around 'till I fell out the window." "You what?" "Fell out the window. That one over there."… — Megan Whalen Turner
And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a… — J.R.R. Tolkien
This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a… — Graham Chapman
When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins. — Cornelia Funke
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a… — Raymond Carver
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! — L. Frank Baum
How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some… — Dorianne Laux
To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were,… — C.S. Lewis
God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever go into my… — George Washington Carver
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings,… — Barbara Kingsolver
Neal stood, kicking free of the clinging curtain. "I'll kill you." I drew the firestar and pointed it at him. "I don't think so." "She… — Laurell K. Hamilton
For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he… — Cormac McCarthy
I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a… — Markus Zusak
And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm,… — Edgar Allan Poe
End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls… — J.R.R. Tolkien
His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand… — Rainer Maria Rilke
We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of… — Daphne du Maurier
In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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