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Rooms Quotes - Page 35

But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.

Miriam Toews (2014). “A Complicated Kindness”, p.186, Faber & Faber

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.54, BookBaby

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.429, Delphi Classics

Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.50, Purdue University Press

I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there.

Lucian Freud, Hayward Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain (1974). “Lucian Freud: catalogue of an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, 25 January-3 March 1974 ... and at 3 other galleries, 6 April-23 June 1974”

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. July 6, 2011.