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Colored Quotes (page 22)

Charles Bukowski quote: "I remember awakening one morning and finding everything..."
I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love. Charles Bukowski
Frederick Douglass quote: "The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of..."
The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America. Frederick Douglass
The trouble with wars is that they all look alike to people who aren’t involved. Only the skin color of the dead is different. Jonathan Carroll
These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies. John Steinbeck
Grandma Harper has two green bottles shaped like women with black hair painted on their heads and a yellow glass colored captain's hat that she keeps her face powder in that I want too, and a picture of a naked girl in a swing, swinging way up in the air over castles in a blue sky. I don't know why I want those things, I just do. Fannie Flagg
Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at things of this earth other than as colorful, variegated, and exciting, and so, it cannot reduce life, with all its pain, horror, suffering, and ecstasy, to a unified tonality of boredom and complaint. By necessity poetry is therefore on the side of being and against nothingness. Czeslaw Milosz
Shel Silverstein quote: "And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet."
And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet. Shel Silverstein
If you're ever feeling a lack of middle-aged white men, just pop into the Capitol. Not so much the House of Representatives, which has a bit more color and texture, but the Senate -- jeez. Yes, let's have more testosterone running the country. Maximum Ride, School's Out--Forever James Patterson
The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary. Wendy Wasserstein
I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty. Pablo Neruda
It is good to know what you are doing. The man with his pickled fish has set down one truth and has recorded in his experience many lies. The fish is not that color, that texture, that dead, nor does he smell that way. John Steinbeck
He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dolly Parton quote: "When someone shows you their true colors, believe them."
When someone shows you their true colors, believe them. Dolly Parton
Edna St. Vincent Millay quote: "And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading..."
And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea. Edna St. Vincent Millay
It was pleasant to drive back to the hotel in the late afternoon, above a sea as mysteriously colored as the agates and cornelians of childhood, green as green milk, blue as laundry water, wine dark. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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