Buts Quotes (page 92)

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• you me
• feeling
• calm

but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything," and she says calmly... glaring at me,"If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway. Bret Easton Ellis

• life
• knowledge
• common

But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow. Albert Camus

• she
• resolve
• another

but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself. Kate Chopin

• world
• dark
• beauty

But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors. Virginia Woolf

• life
• angry
• men

But if the folly of men made one angry one would pass one's life in a state of chronic ire. W. Somerset Maugham

• humanity
• peace
• regret

But it is imperative, for our own survival, that we avoiid one another, and what more successful means of avoidance are there than words? Language will keep us safe from human onslaught, will express for us our regret at being unable to supply groceries or love or peace. Janet Frame

• political
• misunderstanding
• reflection

But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been substituted for the soul, the illusion of theologians. The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection more profound than himself. A 'soul' inhabits him and brings him to existence, which is itself a factor in the mastery that power exercises over the body. The soul is the effect and... Michel Foucault

• road
• experience
• healing

But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime. I remarried. I'm very happy with my new wife, and I can't imagine living without her. This, however, doesn't mean that I have to renounce all my past experiences, as long as I'm careful not to compare my two lives. You can't measure love the way you can the length of a road or the height of a building. Paulo Coelho

• crime
• pretend
• something

...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not. Alice Hoffman

• lies
• true
• true lies

But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie? Astrid Lindgren

• silence
• strong
• strong man

...But the child's sob in silence curses deeper / Than the strong man in his wrath. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• reading
• dragon
• things

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them. Ursula K. Le Guin

• hurt
• people
• calm

But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling. Margaret Atwood

• world
• excellence
• saying

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms. Oscar Wilde

• life
• best
• creativity

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony. Martin Luther King jr.