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All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.
Written by Mark Crispin Miller
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
Written by Andre Malraux
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
Written by Alice Walker
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Written by Natalie Clifford Barney
There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.
Written by Thomas Browne
After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
Written by Cynthia Ozick
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
Written by Maureen Murphy
Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.
Written by John Betjeman
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
Written by John Updike
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
Written by William Golding
As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.
Written by Brian Moore
Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.
Written by Archibald MacLeish
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
Written by Sara Teasdale
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Written by Lester Bangs
Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?
Written by Joan Crawford
Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
Written by Alice Miller
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Written by Alice Walker
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
Written by W. H. Auden
I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
Written by Fred Allen
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
Written by Bertolt Brecht
At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
Written by Jean Baudrillard
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
Written by Thomas Browne
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
Written by George Burns
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
Written by James Russell Lowell
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
Written by Harry Emerson Fosdick
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
Written by Walter Scott
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
Written by Willa Cather
Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
Written by Malcolm de Chazal

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