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Letter "E" » elevator
«Sometimes when I sit own to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me»
«The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.»
Author: Edward Dahlberg
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Novelist)
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Keywords:
automatic,
cafeteria,
cafeterias,
comforts,
depriving,
elevator,
Elevators,
escalator,
escalators,
merchant,
populace,
self-service,
self interest,
specious,
volition
«I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'»
Author: Geena Davis
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Actress,
Model,
Producer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
back door,
bends,
elbow,
elevator,
Elevators,
scream,
stand in,
The Doors
«The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.»
«A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see that special guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking and saying 'Long time no see'»
Author: Phyllis Batelle
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Journalist)
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Keywords:
broken,
Broken Heart,
elevator,
Elevators,
fat,
fats,
fatter,
fattest,
five,
guy,
later,
long time,
saying,
smokes,
smoke out,
smoking,
special,
time of year,
wonderful
«If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.»
«When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes without moving. He said it was elevator practice.»
Author: Stephen Wright
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Actor,
Writer)
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Keywords:
closet,
closeted,
closets,
come out of the closet,
elevator,
Elevators,
five,
grandfather,
grandfathers,
made use of,
minutes,
moving,
practice,
stand,
stand in,
the closet,
used,
used to