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Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What’ll fit and, maybe, what it won’t. After a while, you’ll have an idea what kind of thoughts your mind should be wearing. For one thing, it may save you an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that won’t suit you, aren’t becoming to you. You’ll begin to know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly. J. D. Salinger
She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close. Terry Prachett
We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers. Max Frisch
In the various arts, and above all in that of writing, the shortest distance between two points, even if close to each other, has never been and never will be, nor is it now, what is known as a straight line, never, never, to put it strongly and emphatically in response to any doubts, to silence them once and for all. Jose Saramago
Thomas Hardy quote: "Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man..."
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close? Thomas Hardy
James Joyce quote: "Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body."
Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body. James Joyce
Just look down the road and tell me if you can see either of them."I see nobody on the road." said Alice. I only wish I had such eyes,"the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at such a distance too! Lewis Carroll
Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go to Ireland, with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly. Charlotte Bronte
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jonathan Franzen quote: "Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to..."
Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance Jonathan Franzen
The turnings of life seldon show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing. Edith Wharton
Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine. The long stretches of the waterway ran on, deserted, into the gloom of overshadowed distances. Joseph Conrad
Douglas Adams quote: "Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity?..."
Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity? distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless Douglas Adams
Here we slept," she says. And he adds, "Kisses without number." "Waking in the morning -" "Silver between the trees -" "Upstairs -" "In the garden -"When summer came -"In winter snowtime -"The doors go shutting far in the distance, gently knocking like the pulse of a heart. Virginia Woolf
That man is not yet a finished creation but rather a challenge of the spirit; a distant possibility dreaded as much as it is desired; that the way towards it has only been covered for a short distance and with terrible agonies and ecstasies even by those few for whom it is the scaffold today and the monument tomorrow - all this the Steppenwolf, too, suspected. Herman Hesse

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