149 Quotes About Glass


  • Author Kyle Chayka
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    Glass is, in general, the enemy of secrets. It is also the enemy of possession."—Walter Benjamin

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  • Author A.D. Aliwat
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    Glass ain’t shit when it comes to statement architecture. Fuck glass. Glass is only good for windows. Steel, brick, something solid and dense, that’s what you want your building to be made out of.

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  • Author Mike Hockney
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    We want to be transparent and yet not to be touched. We do and don’t want our private space. What prompts the Glass Delusion? – a tension between embracing the world and fleeing from it, from wanting to be part of it and wanting to be separated from it.

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  • Author J.D. Salinger
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    ...I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.

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  • Author Victoria Lynne
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    She took the glass he offered her and drank deeply, then grimaced and shuddered, staring in horror at the contents. “That’s ghastly. What is it?” “Hundred-year-old scotch.” “No wonder it tastes so vile. Do you have anything more recently brewed?

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  • Author Emma Pass
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    To the NAR!''To freedom!' Jack Chimes in.Max and I pick up our mugs and click them against everyone else's without looking at each other. I'm afraid that if I do catch his eye, I'll see my own horror at what we're getting ourselves into reflected there, and that the smile on my face will drop off and shatter like glass.

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