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“I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.”
Martin Buber
“A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.”
Toledo Blade
“Don't carry a gun. It's nice to have them close by, but don't carry them. You might get arrested.”
John Gotti
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, / Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; / Conspiring with him how to load and bless / With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run.”
John Keats
“Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.”
Lucille Ball
“I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.”
Henry Fonda
“Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.”
William Jennings Bryan
“Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“We're lucky to have the family connection. We're close and close musically as well.”
Caroline Corr
“World War I, that tiresome European engagement that threatened to close down French couture.”
Caroline Seebohm