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Downing Quotes (page 250)

Franz Kafka quote: "Every word first looks around in every direction before..."
Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me. Franz Kafka
she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm. David Foster Wallace
For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens. Not one of us is intact, and yet we have in us all the continents and the seas between the continents and the birds of the air. We are going to put it down the evolution of this world... Henry Miller
You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart. Mitch Albom
Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool," she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Malcolm X quote: "Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down."
Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down. Malcolm X
Like my hairstyle?" she asked."It's great."How great?"Great enough to knock down all the trees in all the forests of the world. Haruki Murakami
Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?"He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this", he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose, "distracting? Suzanne Collins
May I ask you if you have ever had an opportunity of remarking, down in your part of the country, that the children of not exactly suitable marriages are always most particularly anxious to be married? Charles Dickens
I mark my years or parenting by the people who stepped in and forced me to abandon my inclination to meddle, micromanage, and coddle, beginning with my children's father, who sat me down and told me in year two that I was going to create a little monster if I continuted to act as though "no" and "I don't love you" were synonomous. A. Whitney Brown
And she would weep. When he saw tears rolling down her face, he would forgive her. She was less certain whether she would forgive herself. George R. R. Martin
Your conscience betrayed you when some tyrant waylaid you where the lion lies down with the lamb. I'd have paid off the traitor and killed him much later, but that's just the way that I am. Bob Dylan
Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly. Taylor Swift
Heraclitus quote: "the way up is the way down"
the way up is the way down Heraclitus
She had already turned. She watched him in amazement as he made his way slowly across the lawn and into the house. Pandora stepped back for him, and we all watched in respectful silence as he sat down near the piano, his back to the front right leg of it, and his knees brought up and his head resting wearily on his folded arms. He closed his eyes."Sybelle," I asked, "would you play it for him? The Appassionata, again, if you would."And of course, she did. Anne Rice

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