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“...he liked his transcendence out in plain sight where he could keep an eye on it -- say, in a nice stained-glass window --…

— Neal Stephenson

“The brown apartment building was L-shaped. All the doors were facing in, big white patches where the paint had chipped off the stucco. Laundry…

— Joe Ide

“He hadn't moved. All the crazy-hot activity in the kitchen—waitresses going in and out, cooks going back and forth, the constant thump of barbecue…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“He thought other resourceful people would have come, over the years, to look at it, and that the house would wear its own mild…

— Alan Hollinghurst

“Very little made him happier than pulling into his driveway and seeing, through the window, his family moving around inside, a diorama of his…

— Molly Antopol

“You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let’s see how good he is when he…

— Min Jin Lee

“In all the photos I see the boy I once knew and the man he became, a flawed but decent man whom I grew…

— Elizabeth Stone

“It had been a morning of vivid images: the man-made streams, the rats in the butchers’ shops, the stacks of new-minted silver pennies, and…

— Ken Follett

“Before him stood his wife, and he knew this image was the one that would pass before his eyes at his moment of death.”

— David Foenkinos

“I know a man who photographed the view he saw from the window of the room where he made love and not the face…

— Yehuda Amichai

“Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Then the door opened and she came into the room - and it was as though everything in it suddenly blurred before his eyes.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald