Table Quotes

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Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at… — Jhumpa Lahiri
We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick… — Neil Gaiman
I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open… — Arthur Golden
Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There… — Virginia Woolf
MUSIC I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you,… — Conrad Aiken
Now, now," my father said. "Let's just get the bags." This was typical. My father, the lone male in our estrogen-heavy household, had always dealt… — Sarah Dessen
As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces… — Arundhati Roy
On the wall next to the table, next to the scones that provided each table with its own circle of lamplight were quotations about reading,… — Haven Kimmel
Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us:… — D. H. Lawrence
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand… — William Shakespeare
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it.… — Mark Twain
...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow twenty years ago;… — Virginia Woolf
Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter… — Charles Dickens
He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. "She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the… — Jodi Picoult
Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won… — Winston Churchill
Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a… — Frank Zappa
I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with… — Plutarch

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