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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. -- Samuel Johnson
A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position. -- Oscar Wilde
A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity. -- Mark Twain
Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls. -- John Hart
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy -- Robert Smithson
you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces. -- John Kennedy Toole
A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast Sorrow was there The sweet cheat gone. -- Walter de La Mare
What surprised me about 'The Casual Vacancy' was not just how good it was, but the particular way in which it was good. -- Lev Grossman
The infinity of this vacancy, the pervasive pain, the longing for some spirit, some lightness, some joy - that's all that is left. -- Martha Manning
If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none. -- Thomas Jefferson
Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer. -- J. K. Rowling
Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed. -- William Wordsworth
My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in my mind any more than in my heart. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion. -- Samuel Johnson
It's not really possible to open 'The Casual Vacancy' without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There's no point pretending they're not there. -- Lev Grossman
At the next vacancy for God, if I am elected, I shall forgive last the delicately wounded who, having been slugged no harder than anyone else, never got up again, neither to fight back, nor to finger their jaws in painful admiration. -- John Ciardi
Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man. -- William Wordsworth
God is dethroned; and although the incognizant masses are tardy in realizing the event, they feel the icy draught caused by that vacancy. Man enters upon a spiritual ice age; the established churches can no longer provide more than Eskimo huts where their shivering flock huddles together. -- Arthur Koestler
I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager. . .and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that. . . -- Ntozake Shange
If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness,It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement ;But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired,To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
True inward quietness is not that which may be produced by shutting out all outward causes of distraction -- a process which, when carried out too severely, may intensify the inward ferment of the mind, especially in the young. It is rather a state of stable equilibrium; it is not vacancy, but stability -- the steadfastness of a single purpose. -- Caroline Emelia Stephen
Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up by air. The loss of confidence that affected banks and financial instruments was not affecting cherubs, cupids and flattened popes. The objects hadn't changed: what was there before was there after. But a vacancy was created with the clamoring crowds deserted and retrenched. -- Steve Martin
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy. -- Robert Smithson
I shall have less cause to regret the carrying my intended purpose into effect, foreseeing that you may immediately fill with advantage, the vacancy which will presently happen. -- Henry Laurens
I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could have become a dress designer: Dior was willing to take me on as an assistant, but he did not have an immediate vacancy. -- Paul Johnson
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I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager... and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that. -- Ntozake Shange
The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age. -- Mason Cooley
When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy. -- James Goldsmith
The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms. -- David Mitchell
I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her. -- Graham Greene
True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose. -- Caroline Emelia Stephen
Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims. -- H. G. Wells
A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. -- Mark Twain
Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court. -- Christopher Buckley
The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the Trinity. . . . -- H. L. Mencken
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. -- Mark Twain
How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations. -- Wallace Stevens
If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime. -- Ernest Legouve
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict. -- Ellen Swallow Richards
The vacancy in your heart doesn't connotes that nobody is seeking for the job of servicing your feelings, but because the employee must first have all the necessary credentials needed for the job. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
I will say one thing has changed dramatically which is this Supreme Court vacancy, and it will reshape the race on my side, because I'd rather lose an election than lose the Supreme Court. -- Hugh Hewitt

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