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Believes Quotes (page 242)

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice. Andre Dubus
I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist. If it is child's play, an extension of make believe - something one is frequently assured by people who write about writing - how to account for the overriding wish to do that, just that, only that, and consider it as rational an occupation as riding a bicycle over the Alps? Mavis Gallant
I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read. Twyla Tharp
Ayn Rand quote: "We are not used to persons who do things simply for the love..."
We are not used to persons who do things simply for the love of god whom they don't believe in. Ayn Rand
I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood - or the foul kitchen of a diner (Help Wanted) in a dismal ex-prairie state, with the wind blowing, and the stars blinking, and the cars, and the bars, and the barmen, and everything soiled, torn, dead. Vladimir Nabokov
I believed, rather more accurately, that a work resolutely thought out and sought for in the hazards of the mind, systematically, and through a determined analysis of definite and previously prescribed conditions, whatever its value might be once it had been produced, did not leave the mind of its creator without having modified him, and forced him to recognize and in some way reorganize himself. I said to myself that it was not the accomplished work, and its appearance and effect in the... Paul Valery
Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun. C. S. Lewis
It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then. Mario Puzo
So then, what do you believe in? Sex and death. Two things that come once in my lifetime. But at least after death you're not nauseous. Woody Allen
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of... Jane Austen
So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. HELL IS--OTHER PEOPLE! Jean-Paul Sartre
Charles Simic quote: "If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul...."
If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church. Charles Simic
In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed. J. M. Barrie
H. L. Mencken quote: "Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the..."
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops H. L. Mencken
I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook with organic food, and are equally at ease with the CEO and the PTA. Jodi Picoult

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