"Books didn't figure in my family very much.……" — William H. Gass

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• I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and… — Laurence Olivier
• Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and… — Barry Nelson
• I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer — Peter Ustinov
• At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She… — Erica Jong
• My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and… — Michel Gondry
• A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some… — Paul Muni
• I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with… — Arthur Conan Doyle

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