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Malcolm de Chazal: top 300 quotes
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Water (n.) is the only substance friction will not wear out.
Water (n.) is, when flowing, the only dancer whose whole body dances in any one gyration.
Water (n.) is a man’s voice in the brook and a woman’s voice in the fountain.
Water (n.) is a seesaw with no fulcrum just as air is a hopeless swing.
The Sun (n.) is pure communism everywhere except in cities, where it is private property.
The Orchid (n.) is a flower whose petals flow from its face like a river of white whiskers.
The Orchid (n.) has an ancient air; it seems as if it were transplanted from an infinitely older planet than the one we inhabit; a time; or from the night of time in which our own racial memory is completely lost.
The Orchid (n.) looks as if pistil and stamens had melted into its petals, as if the contents of the flower had overflowed the banks of its involuted petals.
The Orchid (n.) is passé, like heirloom furniture in a modern living room; set next to “modern” roses, they twist the charm of the bouquet out of joint.
The Orchid (n.) is the one flower that absolutely refuses to mix, a snob to the core. Put an orchid in a bouquet where all the other flowers have among themselves arranged their compromise of beauty, and the orchid stands out like an intruder. Snobs fit in only with other snobs.
The Alphabet (n.) is the periodic table of words
A Rose (n.) is the milk-teeth of the sun.
The Rose (n.) is a flower whose shoulders, unlike all other flowers, who wear short skirts, overflow her hips like a duchess trailing courtly robes.
The Look (n.) is capable of having a sullying effect — Light is never dirty except in the human look.
A Look (n.) is the eye’s magnet moving its object like the coachman-sun drives his planetary cars.
The Azalea (n.) bursts into a froth of deep red sparkling roses that make your mouth tingle with the sweetness of hard candy.
Love (n.) is a toboggan in which those who are joined become each other's vehicle.
Art (n.) is nature speeded up and God slowed down.