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“Often when he was not working he had come here and sat an entire afternoon, lulled by the din and music from the other…

— Paul Bowles

“The room was amazing. It was all glass, including the domed roof, and in all directions it offered a view of the Atlantic Ocean…

— Robert B. Parker

“the room had grown smothery. He wanted to be out in some cool and bitter breeze, miles above the cities, and to live serene…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

“And there he sat, looking outwardly composed, and all she could think of was that pond. Because something about him, something in his eyes,…

— Priscilla Glenn

“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

“There would not be an empty room without windows in a perfect world. In a perfect world, nothing would have happened yet. Everything would…

— Ben Marcus

“This is what he was good at, he realized. This is what he did. He placed himself in the world, and the world drew…

— Bruce Brooks

“Look through the unfinished entrance facade, note blue sky where the stained-glass windows would have been, and ponder the struggles, triumphs, and failures of…

— Rick Steves

“...it seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able…

— Orhan Pamuk

“He was wondering at the unreality of ideas, at the fading radiance of existence, and at the little absorptions that were creeping avidly into…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

“If indeed the universe posessed a mind, it was a cluttered one. And if corners such as these thrived in that mind, then the…

— Steven Erikson

“Long ago, I had learned that you could imagine anything you wanted, that the space inside your head belonged to you. Furnished and decorated…

— Beatriz Williams