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Karen Elizabeth Gordon
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“... all phone calls are obscene.”
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“Killing time takes practice.”
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“We waltzed Lisztlessly.”
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“We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.”
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“Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.”
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“Words themselves are the intimate attire of thoughts and feelings.”
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“Oh, I love talking with him! He puts all these couches to lie down on in his sentences.”
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“... this little mop of a woman came in scooting across the tiles ...”
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“Time is the mother and mugger of us all.”
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“Oh, how she loved to stand about the lobby of an afternoon, nabbing at passersby with her chronic cheerfulness, snapping her bright voice at them like a towel!”
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“She knitted a loud woolen cap of her recriminations and yanked it over his head.”
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“Art is only abstract when you look the other way.”
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“Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?”
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“Not only was her memory as sheer as her stockings, but each thing it held shone through every other one so vividly that all were hopelessly suffused.”
Karen Elizabeth Gordon, U.S. grammarian
(1950)