Buts Quotes (page 129)

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• eyes
• heart
• look

But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• love
• alone
• mother

But the church, like a tender, loving mother holds aloof from active punishment herself, as the sinner is too severely punished already by the civil law, and there must be at least someone to have pity on him. The church holds aloof, above all, because its judgment alone contains the truth... Fyodor Dostoevsky

• god
• society
• saying

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God. Victor Hugo

• positive
• dear
• whose

But are you sure you are not in the position of those conquerors whose triumphs have cost them too dear? Charlotte Bronte

• jokes
• friends
• my friend

But it's the same with all my friends, just fun and joking, nothing more. I can never bring myself to talk of anything outside the common round. Anne Frank

• love
• love him
• him

But I had loved him. A part of me still did. Maybe more than a part of me, because I'm a complete moron. Meg Cabot

• famous book
• giving
• saying

But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, “When you love life, you go to the movies,” it’s false! It’s exactly the opposite: when you don’t love life, or when life doesn’t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies. Francois Truffaut

• different
• freedom
• adult

But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote about so beautifully -- got to watch all this brave new individualism and self-expression and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation. Today's sub-40s have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without once... David Foster Wallace

• fun
• watch
• sometimes

But most of all, I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they are going. Sometimes I even go to Fun parks and ride in the jet cars when they race on the edge of town at midnight and the police don't care as long as they're insured. As long as everyone has ten thousand insurance everyone's happy. Sometimes I sneak around and listen in subways. Or I listen at soda... Ray Bradbury

• dream
• unicorn
• evening

But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished." -the Lady Amalthea, from The Last Unicorn Peter S. Beagle

• life death
• mistake
• life

But so went forth Darnell, day by day, strangely mistaking death for life, madness for sanity, and purposeless and wandering phantoms for true beings. He was sincerely of opinion that he was a City clerk, living in Shephard's Bush -- having forgotten the mysteries and the far-shining glories of the kingdom which was his by legitimate inheritance. Arthur Machen

• regret
• experience
• experiment

...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience. S. E. Hinton

• images
• doe
• meaning

But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow. Robert Hughes

• romantic
• feeling
• atmosphere

But the romantic atmosphere only heightened his feeling of icy fatness. Nathanael West

• life
• hope
• chance

But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here. Henry Miller