74 Quotes About Coats

  • Author Christopher Hitchens
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    One can become quite used to the specter of the eternal Footman, like some lethal old bore lurking in the hallway at the end of the evening, hoping for the chance to have a word. And I don't so much object to his holding my coat in that marked manner, as if mutely reminding me that it's time to be on my way. No, it's the snickering that gets me down.

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  • Author Erica Jong
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    each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

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  • Author Barbara Kingsolver
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    My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.

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  • Author Daniel Kahneman
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    Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

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  • Author Garry Kasparov
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    With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being dipped in bronze. Each victory added another coat.

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  • Author Nancy Kress
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    Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

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