“baloney is flattery so thick it cannot be true; blarney is flatter so thin we like it.”
“Flattery is so necessary to all of us that we flatter one another to be flattered in return”
“If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the rise of a trout to the tied fly, is the purest form of flattering nature with art.”
“His thin accusation hung thick in the air like fog smoking a cigarette.”
“Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.”
“We both laugh and run and the moment is so thick around me that i feel like dropping into it to let it carry me.”