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Her hair, drawn back off her ears, brushed her shoulders in such a way that the face seemed to have just emerged from it, as if this were the exact moment when she was coming from a wood into clear moonlight. The unknown yielded her up; Dick wished she had no background, that she was just a girl lost with no address save the night from which she had come. F. Scott Fitzgerald
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into..."
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove. P. G. Wodehouse
If you quietly accept and go along no matter what your feelings are, ultimately you internalize what you're saying, because it's too hard to believe one thing and say another. I can see it very strikingly in my own background. Go to any elite university and you are usually speaking to very disciplined people, people who have been selected for obedience. And that makes sense. If you've resisted the temptation to tell the teacher, "You're an asshole," which maybe he or she is, and if you don't... Noam Chomsky
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "the music was always in the background, like music at a church..."
the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon. Joyce Carol Oates
Until we realize that things might not be, we cannot realize that things are. Until we see the background of darkness, we cannot admire the light as a single and created thing. As soon as we have seen that darkness, all light is lightening, sudden, blinding, and divine. Until we picture nonentity we underrate the victory of God, and can realize none of the trophies of His ancient war. It is one of the million wild jests of truth that we know nothing until we know nothing. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Jodi Picoult quote: "if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were..."
if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves Jodi Picoult
Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed some terrible shame in the background, to be kept from the light in which I thought she lived perpetually! Oh, Margaret, Margaret! Mother, how you have tortured me! Oh! Margaret, could you not have loved me? I am but uncouth and hard, but I would never have led you into any falsehood for me. Elizabeth Gaskell
Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Axl and I came from completely different backgrounds. Because of that we made an interesting pair trying to figure each other out. Slash
A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process C. S. Lewis
Kathy Acker quote: "There is no master narrative nor realist perspective to..."
There is no master narrative nor realist perspective to provide a background of social and historical facts. Kathy Acker
The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State. Harry S. Truman
I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise and sheer blind luck. Neil Gaiman
I shall tell them this story against the background of the county I grew up in and along the river I know and do not love very much. For I have discovered that there are other rivers. John Steinbeck
The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into the background. 'But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of food and his belly in chronically filled? At once, other (and higher) needs emerge and these, rather than the psychological hungers, dominate the organism. Betty Friedan

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