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Smiles
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“... all his life Toselli's smile had been stretched across his rage, like a tight-rope spanning a chasm ...”
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“She had one of those frequent, but not spontaneous smiles that did for her face what artificial flowers do for some rooms. Smiles, somehow, were more used in those days; they were instruments, weapons, what not.”
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“ When she smiled the smile was only in the mouth and a little bitter: the face of an incurable yet to be stricken with its malady.”
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“Smiles are the soul's kisses ... ”
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“[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?”
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“[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.”
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“... she wore a fixed smile that wa'n't a smile; there wa'n't no light behind it, same's a lamp can't shine if it ain't lit.”
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“... his smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth ...”
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“And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love ...”
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“Her smile reminded me of the way a child will open its mouth all right, but not let out the cry till it sees the right person.”
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“Harry smiled rather loudly ...”
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“It is the kind of smile that has a bigger one right behind it.”
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“Smiles, like humor, are the most serious and complex forms of communication used by human beings.”
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“If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!”
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“His smile, like his voice, is beautiful, but it is a smile hatched from a frustrated asceticism, and the suspicion that love is no more than a diminutive for self-injury.”
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“Top people smile more frequently than people on any other rung of the career ladder — and not just because they make more money.”
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“... she set an attentive smile on her face, like a sentinel, behind which she could cultivate her own thoughts.”
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“She had long since forgotten the meaning of a smile, but the physical ability to make the gesture remained.”
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“He had the kind of smile that said: I'm a big prick, let me sell you something overpriced. Apparently that worked for some people.”
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“I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin. I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.”
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“The person at whom we smile, smiles back. In one sense, he smiles at us. In a deeper sense, his smile reports the sudden well-being we have enabled him to experience. He smiles because our smile has made him feel smile-deserving. We have, so to speak, picked him out of the crowd. We have differentiated him and given him individual status.”
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“It was the smile which runs before a promise.”
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“It was a cold ray of a smile, that made you think of pale-flanked little fish swimming snugly under ice.”
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“He hid a scornful smile under his mustache, which is not a good hiding place.”
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“Thorkild smiled, and the gold caps gleamed. Then he went back to work on an open-faced sandwich that rather frightened Larry. He doubted that everything on it was completely dead.”
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“She smiled quickly, brightly, all manners and no meaning.”
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“... Sisyphus flashed his smile — oddly artificial, as if he'd learned it by observation.”
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“... her smile was as open as a small boy's, a personal enjoyment rather than a social gesture.”
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“He flashed that smile, piratical, conspiratorial, like a man with a knife between his teeth.”
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“They might not need me — yet they might; / I'll let my heart be just in sight. / A smile so small as mine might be / Precisely their necessity.”
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“The smile you give is the smile you get back.”
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