#blot

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#absent #better #blots #friends #heart

Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings. ↗

— Robert Farrar Capon

#blot #bread #daily #day #give

My love for you would blot out the sun like a cloud made out of yogurt. I hope you brought a spoon. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #blot-out #cloud #funny #humor

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#absent #blots #friends #out #people

Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#another #aside #back #begin #blotting

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#could #discreetly #got #half #known

It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything. ↗

— Julie Walters

#alcoholic #anything #being #blotting #early

I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through. ↗

— Keith Waterhouse

#day #every #every day #i #leaf

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#earth #i #out #planet #planet earth

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#children #clowns #drink #living #out