"Appearance is everything. I find that a view is secondary. Even in those apartments on the East River, it's dull, looking out at those little boats."

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Source : "The More the Merrier — Robert Denning's Extravagance of Color and Pattern" by Cynthia Zarin, Architectural Digest, v. 59 #4, pp. 146-152, April 2002.

Robert Denning

#Rivers Quotes #Views Quotes #Dull Quotes

“Once you learn how to make people laugh, then you get to choose exactly how you want to make them laugh.”
“When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that particular power and other guys weren't. I wasn't.”
“Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.”
“The discipline of desire is the background of character.”
“If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.”
“Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.”
“I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know.”
“The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.”

Source : Bliss Carman (1903). “The Kinship of Nature”

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