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Door Quotes (page 17)

There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn't. When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say ‘I think’ we don't leave our emotions outside the door. To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead. Jeanette Winterson
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "What we suffered in our lives we went through together, but..."
What we suffered in our lives we went through together, but somehow we came out different doors, on different ground levels. Barbara Kingsolver
Henry James quote: "Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the..."
Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window. Henry James
Maud’Dib could indeed, see the Future, but you must understand the limits of this power. Think of sight. You have eyes, yet cannot see without light. If you are on the floor of a valley, you cannot see beyond the valley. Just so, Maud’Dib could not always choose to look across the mysterious terrain. He tells us that a single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us “The vision of time is broad, but... Frank Herbert
…[T]he whole thing is really a dazzling illusion empty of all perception, an astonishing farce of misperception. And yet what are we to do about this terribly significant business of other people, which gets bled of the significance we think it has and takes on instead a significance that is ludicrous, so ill-equipped are we all to envision one another’s interior workings and invisible aims? Is everyone to go off and lock the door and sit secluded like the lonely writers do, in a soundproof... Philip Roth
Oscar Wilde quote: "If the doors of perception were cleared everything will appear..."
If the doors of perception were cleared everything will appear to us as it is, infinite Oscar Wilde
Herman Hesse quote: "We all share the same origin, our mothers; all of us come in..."
We all share the same origin, our mothers; all of us come in at the same door. - from the preface to 'Demian Herman Hesse
Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return. Suzanne Collins
Today I might lose both of them. I try to imagine a world where both Gale's and Peeta's voices have ceased. Hands stilled. Eyes unblinking. I'm standing over their bodies, having a last look, leaving the room where they lie. But when I open the door to step out into the world, there's only a tremendous void. A pale grey nothingness that is all my future holds. Suzanne Collins
He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no. Anne Tyler
Bo Diddley quote: "I opened the door for a lot of people and they left me holdin'..."
I opened the door for a lot of people and they left me holdin' the knob Bo Diddley
Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at weddings. I couldn't help myself. In a dramatic gesture, I bolted the door and threw my body across it to prevent her exit. She understood. Erma Bombeck
I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and young, girl and boy, man and animal. I pledge to use books to open windows to a thousand different worlds and to the thousand different faces of my own world. I pledge to use books to make my universe spread much wider than the world I live in every day. I pledge to treat my books like friends, visiting them all from time to time and keeping them close. Cornelia Funke
A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch. It is a lion you cage in your study. As the work grows, it gets harder to control; it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room. You enter its room with bravura, holding... Annie Dillard
Charles Lamb quote: "Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural..."
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door. Charles Lamb

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