Cezanne produced precarious little worlds that almost, almost, almost lose their balance but somehow hold themselves together, creating tension, beauty and danger all at once.
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Related A fan almost pulled me off stage once, and that was a little scary because I totally almost ate it! MADISON MARLOW Almost always in the playoffs, if you have too many turnovers, you're going to lose. MIKE HOLMGREN I'm exhausted almost all the time. EMILY VANCAMP It's dramatic monologues, almost like Robert Browning. JOSEPH GRAVES Once and for all is almost never, once and for all. CHARLES M FORD II Liraz snorted, caught off guard, and the tension between them ebbed away. "I'm sorry if my almost dy... LAINI TAYLOR We all adore nature and marvel at its beauty and varieties, yet we explore it to almost extinction DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and wa... CHARLES CALEB COLTON On first glance, one could argue that all three of these paintings are all alike. The palette is alm... WALLY MASON Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced. ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD There's tremendous demand for skilled people at all levels of almost every organization and almost e... BRUCE TULGAN It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold ... WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Allegany County raised almost $40,000 in Katrina relief funds. Wellsville Central School students ra... MADELEINE GASDIK This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign. TERI HATCHER Almost won means nothing but lose. Learn your lesson, you'll be stronger. TOBA BETA Their period in the apartment together had been one of almost narcotic domesticity. J.G. BALLARD the almost sculpted clarity of his playing, and his ability to maintain balance and tension in large... CARNEGIE HALL Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almos... DAVID LEVITHAN Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves BILL ANDERSON Me and my friends would all go do it together, almost like a hobby. HEATHER SCHULTE Almost won means nothing but lose. Learn your lesson, you'll be stronger. TOBA BETA His face looked almost as gray as his suit, and the pouches beneath his eyes looked like little bags... PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR He was almost there, when...Smash! Crash! Bash! He slid down and mashed into engine hash the little ... SHEL SILVERSTEIN Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist ... JAMES BRANCH CABELL Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never
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NICHOLAS SPARKS Almost all government starts at a very local level at some point. JOHN HICKENLOOPER But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were a... CARL SAGAN My whole life is about winning. I don't lose often. I almost never lose. DONALD TRUMP It's better. For once, most of the fluid is almost out. But it's still stiff. EDUARDO NAJERA The game is almost over, finished. I'm not interested in that competition at all, JACK MA It's almost hilarious and ridiculous at some level. But we're definitely serious about that test. MARGI NANNEY We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad c... LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH I told our guys after the game that for almost three weeks we've done almost everything in an execut... RAY TANNER Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette W... 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KATE ATKINSON Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at on... CHARLES MACKAY They have very little fat on them and this was in October, at the time of year when we would expect ... MATT AUSTIN Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there... ALEXANDER POPE Almost all firms that exhibit at the show set up their own local networks. Unfortunately, they are t... DAVID EMM Almost all the millionaires I've worked with have failed at their first business, and then come back... JAMES GOTTFURCHT You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make... DEB CALETTI Such deformities are almost impossible to treat, but once they are picked up early, there is hope. DR SUHEL KOTWAL These findings clearly show that almost every driver has engaged in a risky behavior at least once i... BRAD COKER ...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged th... TERRY PRATCHETT Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything. HERBERT GARDNER Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything HERBERT GARDNER Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was prob... BETTE DAVIS It's almost essential at this point. DORN PETERSON It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of se... DAN KAMINSKY Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite. WILL ROGERS Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as
none at all, but not quite. SAMUEL JOHNSON Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting. RICH LOWRY That is almost impossible to do -- to prove that a pregnancy would literally cause you to lose your ... GLORIA STEINEM Almost all networks are extremely vulnerable, BRUCE SCHNEIER Almost. This has kind of been the almost season. MIKE SHERMAN Policemen almost got hit, other people almost got hit. DENNIS KRILL Every time you almost die, I almost die myself. CASSANDRA CLARE Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here. DAVID KAY Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their f... SYDNEY J. HARRIS Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a
sort of lively sophistry and exagg... THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY They are almost backing themselves into a corner and may not have much of a choice. CHRISTOPHER HAYES It's almost in slow motion. You're nervous, but once you're out there and the lights hit you, everyt... ASHLEY HUBBARD
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