Buts Quotes (page 74)

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• ignorance
• to live
• points

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible. Jane Austen

• justify
• spoke
• hunger

But that sacred hunger we spoke of justifies all. Barry Unsworth

• thanksgiving
• understanding
• time

….but at the same time, they got a miracle. It wasn’t the kind that comes on a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day float. And it wasn’t the one that they wanted, where God would reach down from the sky and touch their girl with a magic wand and restore her to perfect health. Maybe that will still happen-who knows? I wouldn’t put anything past God, because he or she is one crafty mother. Still, they did get a miracle, one of those dusty little red-wagon miracles, and they understand this. Anne Lamott

• images
• astonishing
• yours

But round your image there is no fog, and the Earthcan still astonish. W. H. Auden

• against
• am
• many

But they know. They all know. And what am I against so many…? Sylvia Plath

• feeling
• door
• impressive

But here was all the timorousness and angularity of inexperienced youth, a feeling of awkwardness, and an impression of bewilderment, as if someone had suddenly knocked at the door. Anton Chekhov

• humanity
• hand
• one life

But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which we look at our unintroduced neighbor. Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand. George Eliot

• star
• girl
• girls

But that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl with her seaside limbs and ardent tongue haunted me ever since. Vladimir Nabokov

• book
• writing
• hell

But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books. Edward Abbey

• best
• god
• lesson

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us. Ken Follet

• happy
• she
• aunt

But Aunt Maureen makes smashing omelettes." Julia Upjohn."She makes smashing omelettes." Poirot's voice was happy. He sighed."Then Hercule Poirot has not lived in vain, he said. It was I who taught your Aunt Maureen to make an omelette. Agatha Christie

• love
• sick
• mind

But Love is a durable firein the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself, never turning. Walter Raleigh

• play
• were
• said

But. . . you said we were going to play Parcheezi. . . Meg Cabot

• heart
• cheese
• dream

But, mate, my heart is sore for Christian diet. You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted, mostly--and woke up again, and here I were. Robert Louis Stevenson

• space
• men
• silence

But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against the might of a world as remote and alien and pulseless as the abysses of space. Jack London