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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essayist
Art
Smile
Picturesque
Pictures
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The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
Louisa May Alcott / Novelist
Dirt
Mind
Picturesque
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Milan is marvellous, picturesque, and full of elegance.
Wesley Sneijder /
Elegance
Marvellous
Milan
Picturesque
Full
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
Dorothea Lange / Photographer
Life
Enough
Photograph
Photography
Picturesque
Obviously
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This is the beauty of Rajasthan; everything is so picturesque.
Diana Penty /
Picturesque
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
Nancy Astor / Politician
Figures
Lonely
May
Picturesque
Pioneers
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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Friedrich Nietzsche / Philologist
Fanatics
Gestures
Mankind
Picturesque
Reason
Reasons
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
P. J. O'rourke / Satirist
Crumbling
Detroit
Picturesque
Rome
Ruins
Industrial
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Bali is the sort of place where you can walk down the street and find something picturesque.
Henry Golding /
Bali
Picturesque
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
Anthony Trollope / Novelist
Hideous
Literature
Misery
Picturesque
Poverty
Pitiable
Rural
Suburban
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Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
Anatole Broyard / Writer
Logical
Picturesque
Sentences
Words
Armed
Inalienable
Wrapped
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The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David Thoreau / Author
Calm
Excitement
Literature
Oracles
Picturesque
Utter
Merely
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman / Poet
Artist
Bad Manners
Humanity
Manners
Picturesque
Real
Significant
Real Artist
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There is no picturesque version of what self-care looks like; it's different for every person who wants to practice it.
Jenna Wortham /
Looks
Picturesque
Practice
Version
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Perhaps no country in Latin America is more picturesque than Bolivia, and the most memorable Bolivian city may be Potosi.
Nicholas Kristof /
Bolivia
Latin
Latin America
Memorable
Picturesque
No Country
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I have been to the South several times. The picturesque locations were a real treat for the eyes and I also love the culture.
Shibani Dandekar /
Picturesque
Locations
Real Treat
Several
Treat
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You have here In New York one of the greatest and most picturesque and artistic structures in the world. I mean the Brooklyn Bridge.
Gutzon Borglum / Artist
New York
Brooklyn
Picturesque
Greatest
Bridge
York
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I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.
Primo Levi / Chemist
Home
Beautiful
House
Picturesque
Skins
Unnatural
Inside
Ample
Skin
Exchange
Mine
Seem
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The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere.
Rachel Cusk / Novelist
Old World
Picturesque
Amazingly
Nowhere
Cruel
Experienced
Socially
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The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.
Alice Morse Earle / Historian
Men
Cheerful
Greatest Man
Landlord
May
Picturesque
Colonial
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Scotland is a picturesque country where the people are friendly yet completely incomprehensible. Also, the national delicacy is a sheep's stomach filled with its liver, lungs, and heart.
Adam Schlesinger / Songwriter
Delicacy
Filled
Friendly
Liver
Lungs
Picturesque
Scotland
Stomach
Incomprehensible
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Los Angeles is a weird mixture of every influence that Europe has dropped in its melting pot. It is hot, arid, picturesque, seething, banal, sometimes plain pleasant, and sometimes awesome.
Steven Berkoff / Actor
Melting
Melting Pot
Picturesque
Pleasant
Arid
Awesome
Banal
Dropped
Plain
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Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.
Marguerite Gardiner /
Antiquity
Appearance
Manners
Picturesque
Primitive
Remarkable
Towns
Contains
Inhabitants
Viewed
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The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
James Weldon Johnson / Author
Romantic
Admire
Bravery
Chivalry
Great People
Justice
Oneself
People
Picturesque
Point Of View
Views
Certain Point
Frame
Looked
Many Respects
Notions
Respects
Whites
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The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking - something that will arrest their attention, enlist their sympathy, arouse their indignation, stimulate their imagination, convince their reason, awaken their conscience.
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Sympathy
Conscience
Convince
Indignation
Picturesque
American People
Arouse
Awaken
Enlist
Forcible
Stimulate
Striking
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In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task. But the loss of Yeats and all that boundless activity, in a country where the mind is feared and avoided, leaves a silence which it is painful to contemplate.
Austin Clarke /
Activity
Avoided
Boundless
Country
Harder
Loss
Materialistic
Painful
Picturesque
Silence
Yeats
Less
Days
State
Contemplate
Feared
Irish
Leaves
Task
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Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many forms, appears only in orderly ways that are beauteous and picturesque, or that the mystical appears only in completely silent ways. All are true. Except for the 'only' part.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes / Poet
Knowledge
Accomplished
Creator
Matter
Mystical
Orderly
Picturesque
Silent
Way
Appears
Forms
Complete
Except
Matters
Sudden
Ways
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The classic French blanch-and-cool technique I learned at Chez Panisse yields the kind of brilliant, picturesque vegetables we all want to see on restaurant plates. Long-cooked foods, on the other hand, fall firmly into the 'ugly but good' camp of the Tuscan cucina povera, where flavor far outshines looks.
Samin Nosrat /
Classic
Picturesque
Plates
Technique
Vegetables
Camp
Firmly
Foods
Yields
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