1,646 Quotes About Lasts


  • Author John Singer Sargent
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    If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.

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  • Author John Steinbeck
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    No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.

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  • Author Jonathan Swift
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    Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.

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  • Author Logan Pearsall Smith
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    When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

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  • Author Louis Sullivan
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    An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet... this is the one real, vital principle that survives through all places and all times.

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  • Author Maggie Stiefvater
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    at last no one decided And no one knocked And no one jumped up And no one opened And there stood no one And no one entered And no one said: welcome And no one answered: at last

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