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upstairs
«He [Halifax] had said that he had known many kicked downstairs, but he never knew any kicked upstairs before.»
«Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement... Let me go upstairs and check.»
«One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.»
Author: Robert Hughes
(Author, Critic)
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Criticism
| Keywords:
piano, piano player, player piano, the Action, upstairs, whorehouse, whorehouses
«I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs.»
Author: Roman Polanski
(Actor, Film Director)
| Keywords:
apartment, apartment building, concierge, ground floor, menaces, Parisian, Parisians, The Landlord, twin, upstairs
«We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it»
Author: Tennessee Williams
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burned down, Burns, burn down, call, department, departments, Department of, fire, fire department, house, live in, locked, locking, lock in, lock up, look out, No Way Out, on fire, the fire, trapped, trapping, upstairs, way out, window
«I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks.»
Author: Groucho Marx
(Actor, Comedian, Singer)
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Funny
| Keywords:
footprint, footprints, photograph, sock, socks, upstairs
«Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.»
Author: Robert Frost
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
faucet, hydrant, In the House, opening, pressure, upstairs, write off, yard