Quotations About / On: MIRROR

  • 1.
    The world is the mirror of myself dying.
    (Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. "Third or Fourth Day of Spring," Black Spring (1936).)
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  • 2.
    A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self—in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
    (Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987), U.S. diplomat, writer. Mrs. Morehead, in The Women, act 1 (1936).)
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  • 3.
    Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Second Selection, New York (1985).)
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  • 4.
    Bring us the mirror, you ignorant thing, and be sure not to sully the image by the transmission of your reflection!
    (Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622-1673), French comic playwright. Cathos to a servant, in Les Précieuses Ridicules, sc. 6 (1659).)
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  • 5.
    Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.
    (Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Fragments, l. 274.)
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  • 6.
    A pale self-portrait looked out of the mirror with the serious eyes of all self-portraits.
    (Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. The Gift, ch. 3 (1963).)
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  • 7.
    Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection, New York (1993).)
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  • 8.
    Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
    (Joan Didion (b. 1935), U.S. essayist. "In the Islands," The White Album (1979).)
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  • 9.
    Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
    (Lauren Bacall (b. 1924), U.S. actor. Daily Mail (London, Nov. 1, 1990).)
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  • 10.
    Something is sticking out its tongue at me from the corner of my mirror.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York (1993).)
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