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• Harry had the impression that even the barman was listening in. He was wiping the same glass with the filthy rag; it was becoming steadily dirtier.

  J. K. Rowling

  Glasses, Listening, Rags

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• If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.

  David Levithan

  Memories, Accomplishment, Lasting Impressions

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.152, Macmillan

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• What happened to your stammer?" "I suppose I must feel comfortable with you. I tend to stammer less with certain people." "No one's ever told me that I'm a comfortable sort. I'm sure I don't like it. I'll have to do something diabolical soon to correct your impression.

  Lisa Kleypas

  People, Certain, Feels

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “The Devil in Winter”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• there was an assumption that I was personally attacking Sarah Palin by impersonating her on TV. No one ever said it was 'mean' when Chevy Chase played Gerald Ford falling down all the time. No one ever accused Dana Carvey or Darrell Hammond or Dan Aykroyd of 'going too far' in their political impressions. You see what I'm getting at here. I am not mean and Mrs. Palin is not fragile. To imply otherwise is a disservice to us both.

  Tina Fey

  Fall, Mean, Here I Am

  "She's the Boss: Tina Fey on Sarah Palin, Sexism, and More" by Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. April 5, 2011.

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• The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.

  Dante Alighieri

  Real, Love Is, Mind

  Dante Alighieri (2013). “The Divine Comedy: The Unabridged Classic”, p.294, Vintage

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• In face of this modern nihilism, Christians are often lacking in courage. We tend to give the impression that we will hold on to the outward forms whatever happens, even if God really is not there. But the opposite ought to be true of us, so that people can see that we demand the truth of what is there and that we are not dealing merely with platitudes. In other words, it should be understood that we take this question of truth and personality so seriously that if God were not there we would be among the first of those who had the courage to step out of the queue.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Opposites, People

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• You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sleep, Dust, Miles

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.39, Penguin

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• I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Identity, Opponents, Made

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• our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Lying, Training, First Impression

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• Everything that happens to us, good and bad, leaves a lasting impression in our souls. You take one part of that out, and you can completely rewrite something crucial about us. By and large, we're not shaped by the big things. It's the little, day-to-day moments that make us who we are. Who we're going to be. (Nekoda to Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Soul, Lasting Impressions, Littles

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• What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time to time, unbidden and often upsetting. From the sandy smell of his sandy hair to the locked grip of his muscles as they had wrestled in sensuous aggression - unwelcome nostalgia. Trism lived in Liir's heart like a full suit of clothes in a wardrobe, dress habillards maybe, hollow and real at once. The involuntary memory of the best of Trism's glinting virtues sometimes kicked up unquietable spasms of longing.

  Gregory Maguire

  Memories, Real, Heart

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• My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. It's a little more complicated than that, maybe. But when you come right down to it it's to be liked, loved. Admired, approved of, applauded, whatever. You get the idea.

  David Foster Wallace

  Ideas, People, Trying

  "David Foster Wallace's first biographer, D.T. Max, on his inscrutable subject" by Mark Sussman, www.politico.com. September 6, 2012.

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• A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Thinking, People, Hitting Bottom

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• Oh, you made an impression. Like a stone caught in my boot.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Boots, Stones, Made

  Maria V. Snyder (2011). “Touch of Power”, p.381, MIRA

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• For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed of an infinity of successive loves, of different jealousies, each of which is ephemeral, although by their uninterrupted multiplicity they give us the impression of continuity, the illusion of unity.

  Marcel Proust

  Passion, Giving, Unity

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove”, Vintage

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• Slowly, quietly, like snow-flakes—like the small flakes that come when it is going to snow all night —little flakes of me, my impressions, my selections, are settling down on the image of her. The real shape wil be quite hidden in the end.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Night, Snow

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.

  Thomas Hardy

  Half, Forgotten, Transient

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Works of Hardy”, p.37, 谷月社

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• Perfection I've lived with the pretense of perfection for seventeen years. Give my room a cursory inspection, you'd think I have OCD. But it's only habit and not obsession that keeps it all orderly. Of course, I don't want to give the impression that it's all up to me.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Thinking, Years, Giving

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.675, Simon and Schuster

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• Well do I remember the first night we met, how you questioned my opinion that first impressions are perfect. You were right to do so, of course, but even then I suspected what I've come to believe most passionately these past weeks: from that first moment, I knew you were a dangerous woman, and I was in great peril of falling in love." She thought she should say something witty here. She said, "Really?

  Shannon Hale

  Witty, Falling In Love, Believe

  Shannon Hale (2007). “Austenland: A Novel”, Bloomsbury USA

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• Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.

  Kristin Hannah

  Promise

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.685, Ballantine Books

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• As he stared back, he altered...as if a shield slid away fro his eyes, revealing a scorching force of will that sucked the air from my lungs. The intense magnetism he exuded grew in strength, becoming a near tangible impression of vibrant and unrelenting power.

  Sylvia Day

  Eye, Air, Force Of Will

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.17, Penguin

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• I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of this power lies among considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Lying, Fall, Simple

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Fall of the House of Usher”, p.2, Booklassic

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• I'm a gunfighter, Jim, not a demonologist." Sin moved past him so that he could burn the body o n the ground. "Nice Bones impression. Roddenberry would be proud.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Nice, Past, Would Be

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.43, Macmillan

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• It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Writing, Divorce, Infidelity

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, p.269, Wordsworth Editions

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• ... The truth of the matter is, that most English people don't know how to make tea anymore either, and most people drink cheap instant coffee instead, which is a pity, and gives Americans the impression that the English are just generally clueless about hot stimulants.

  Douglas Adams

  Coffee, Clueless, People

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.81, Del Rey

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