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Figured Quotes (page 16)

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. To have lost one's self-respect: that is what unhappiness is. Oh, I have always known that so well! Everything else is part of the game, an enrichment of one's life; in every other form of suffering one can feel such extraordinary self-satisfaction, one can cut such a fine figure. Only when one has fallen out with oneself and no longer suffers with a good conscience, only in the throes of stricken vanity - only... Thomas Mann
But about the smell of rancid butter... There are good associations too. When I think of this rancid butter I see myself standing in a little, old world courtyard, a very smelly, very dreary courtyard. Through the cracks in the shutters strange figures peer out at me. Henry Miller
Roseanne Barr quote: "I figure when my husband comes home from work, if the kids are..."
I figure when my husband comes home from work, if the kids are still alive, then I've done my job. Roseanne Barr
Maybe in some distant place, everything is already, quietly, lost. Or at least there exists a silent place where everything can disappear. Or at least there exists a silent place where everything can disappear, melting together in a single overlapping figure. And as we live our lives we discover—drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each—what has been lost. Haruki Murakami
Kazuo Ishiguro quote: "You'll figure it out! You get on your plane and I'll get on..."
You'll figure it out! You get on your plane and I'll get on mine. And we'll see which one crashes! Kazuo Ishiguro
It was the terror of impermanence, the knowledge that all this would pass away, that a beautiful voice or a wonderful figure was something whose arrival you couldn't control and whose departure you couldn't delay. Terry Prachett
And in the bloodlit dark behind his eyes, silver phosphenes boiled in from the edge of space, hypnagogic images jerking past like a film compiled of random frames. Symbols, figures, faces, a blurred, fragmented mandala of visual information. William Gibson
Or more accurately, since we were in the plane, our shadows figured as well inside the shadow of the airplane skimming over mountain and field. Which would mean we too were imprinted into the earth. Haruki Murakami
Don't read my diary when I'm gone. Ok, I'm going to work now, when you wake up this morning, please read mmy diary. Look trough my things, and figure me out. Kurt Cobain
Geordie wrote a letter to Mr. Webster in which the shrieking figure of Apology was hounded through a labyrinth of agonized syntax. Robertson Davies
George Orwell quote: "Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who..."
Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal. George Orwell
Salman Rushdie quote: "A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it..."
A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight. Salman Rushdie
Esteban fell face downward upon the floor. "I am alone, alone, alone," he cried. The Captain stood above him, his great plain face ridged and gray with pain; it was his own old hours he was reliving. He was the awkwardest speaker in the world apart from the lore of the sea, but there are times when it requires a high courage to speak the banal. He could not be sure the figure on the floor was listening, but he said, "We do what we can. We push on, Esteban, as best we can. It isn't for... Thornton Wilder
Christ, back in Chicago, we don't make bicycles any more. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everybody to be happy. Nobody can get fired, no matter what; and if someone does accidentally make a bicycle, the union accuses us of cruel and inhuman practices and the government confiscates the bicycle for back taxes and gives it to a blind man in Afghanistan. Kurt Vonnegut
She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him awayfrom the sunken wreck he had a dream of raising; and looked at himwith eyes which assuredly, in association with her patient face, her fragile figure, her spare dress, and the wind and rain, did notturn him from his purpose of helping her. Charles Dickens

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