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Distance Quotes (page 14)

Harlan Ellison quote: "Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small..."
Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit. Harlan Ellison
Steven Wright quote: "Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time."
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. Steven Wright
An introverted person obviously affected by her past. Lived alone, had no sex life, had difficulty getting close to people. Kept her distance, and when she let loose there was no restraint. She chose a stranger for a lover. Steig Larsson
He watched them from a distance, as if he still sat in the window of his bedchamber, looking down on the yard below, seeing everything yet a part of nothing." - Bran George R. R. Martin
It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear. E. M. Forster
We strike a medium, and he shivers in his bag, while I swelter in mine, but considering from what distances we have come together, we do well enough. Ursula K. Le Guin
he had been afraid of finding things quite different, and now it pained him to find them so unchanged. the prospect of meeting people, of looking up old friends left him vaguely bored. from a distance fancy is free to roam. the tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried. what selfish love such flights occasionally attest ! Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Arthur Koestler quote: "[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and..."
[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print. Arthur Koestler
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was..."
It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don’t truly understand. Bill Bryson
Rich women live at such a distance from life that very often they never see their money? the Queen, they say, for instance, never carries a purse. Elizabeth Bowen
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. Miyamoto Musashi
The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him. Robert M. Pirsig
Science has eliminated distance? Melquades proclaimed. ?In a short time, man will be able to see what is happening in any place in the world without leaving his own house. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And it is, after all, as good a way as any of solving the problem of existence to get near enough to the things and people that have appeared to us beautiful and mysterious from a distance to be able to satisfy ourselves that they have neither mystery nor beauty. Marcel Proust

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