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I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though. — J D Salinger
The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in… — Chuck Klosterman
I don't want you to describe to me—not ever—what you were doing to that poor boy to make him sound like that; but if you… — John Irving
When he comes into a room, you give a little gasp, deep inside, far inside,' someone once said when trying to describe what it meant… — Margaret George
It was quite impossible to describe. Here is what it looked like. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well.… — Terry Pratchett
Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife. — J I Packer
You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you… — Hermann Hesse
You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver… — Lois Lowry
Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we… — Robert A. Heinlein
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes. — Desmond Tutu
There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened. — Douglas Adams
... I am more of an ambler. I once overheard my old boss in Dublin describe me as very "hello trees, hello flowers." It was… — Marian Keyes
Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and… — Mark Haddon
Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their… — Mikhail Lermontov
All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a… — Edward Gorey
There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent.… — Jodi Picoult
But how to do feelings? All very well to write "She felt sad", or describe what a sad person might do, but what of sadness… — Ian Mcewan
He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so… — Robert Louis Stevenson
But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one. Nothing has… — Jean-Paul Sartre
What you describe is how it happens to everyone: magic does slide through you, and disappear, and come back later looking like something else. And… — Robin McKinley
She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word… — Paulo Coelho
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day… — George Bernard Shaw
It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because at the time it feels entirely natural, as if all the rest of your life has been… — Margaret George
Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are… — Milan Kundera
How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described. — Anne Rice

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