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Famous quotes containing the words spin, glass and/or model:

    “In tragic life, God wot,
    No villain need be! Passions spin the plot:
    We are betrayed by what is false within.”
    —George Meredith (1828–1909)

    “Sunshine of late afternoon—
    On the glass tray

    a glass pitcher, the tumbler
    turned down, by which

    a key is lying—And the
    immaculate white bed”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    “She represents the unavowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity—and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the “woman of wax” whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.”
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)