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But man is so partial to systems and abstract conclusions that he is ready to distort the truth, ready to hear nor see anything, as long as he can justify his logic. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Katherine Mansfield quote: " but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate..."
... but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people. Katherine Mansfield
...but there were no faerie godmothers. There were only mothers and grandmothers, and there was no magic wand to wave over a person's heart and make it all better. The fairy tales lied. ...Fucking Brothers Grimm. Laurell K. Hamilton
But if, like a bold painter, you had first sketched in a few audacious strokes the outline of the picture you had in your own soul, you would then easily have been able to deepen and intensify the colors one after the other, until the varied throng of living figures carried your friends away and they, like you, saw themselves in the midst of the scene that had proceeded out of your own soul. E. T. A. Hoffmann
But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that. Ayn Rand
But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail. Jodi Picoult
but nothing i ever gave was good for you; it was like white bread to goldfish. they cram and cram, and it kills them, and they drift in the pool, belly-up, making stunned facesand playing on our guiltas if their own toxic gluttonywas not their own faultthere you are, still outside the window, still with your hands out, stillpallid and fish-eyed, still actingstupidly innocent and starved. Margaret Atwood
But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival. Stanley Milgram
John Crowley quote: "But is this not what poetry must do? To say the nothing that..."
But is this not what poetry must do? To say the nothing that cannot be said? John Crowley
Terry Prachett quote: "But if you must know, your moon here is rather more powerful..."
But if you must know, your moon here is rather more powerful than the ones around my own world? Terry Prachett
But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Haruki Murakami
But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art. Charles Darwin
But if you ever bring her back damaged again--and I don't care whose fault it is; I don't care if she merely trips, or if a meteor falls out of the sky and hits her in the head--if you return her to me in less than the perfect condition that I left her in, you will be running with three legs. Do you understand that, mongrel? Stephenie Meyer
Jonathan Franzen quote: "But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone."
But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. Jonathan Franzen
But every time I feel bad, I try to remind myself about what this little kid said to me once. She was loaded with personality-so ugly she was cute. And you knew she knew it too. "Carrie?" she asked. "What if i'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?" That question still kind of blows me away. I mean, isn't it the truth? Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that... Candace Bushnell

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