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Has Beens Quotes (page 57)

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me. Alan Moore
My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is called a firearm. It makes the blackest of all human wishes come true at once, at a distance: that something die. Kurt Vonnegut
The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance. Oswald Chambers
She raised her chin and her pale, black-fringed eyes sparkled in the moonlight. Ellen had never told her that desire and attainment were two different matters; life had not taught her that the race was not to the swift. She lay in the silvery shadows with courage rising and made the plans that a sixteen-year-old makes when life has been so pleasant that defeat is an impossibility and a pretty dress and a clear complexion are weapons to vanquish fate. Margaret Mitchell
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions. Italo Calvino
Don't you know, even yet, why I came back to Orkney?" Rognvald said. Than Thorfinn looked up. Rognvald's gaze, waiting for his, took and sustained it. Thorfinn did not look away, but his face held no expression. Rognvald said "I am the dog at your heel. Everything I have ever done has been an attempt to be like Thorfinn. Dorothy Dunnett
E. M. Forster quote: "There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type..."
There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.? E. M. Forster
anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly Jose Saramago
why should I seek to change, what has been so precious to me for so long! you can never show better than as your own natural self Charles Dickens
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization. William Morris
What if Sam's heart got broken again? As with most kids who are fourteen, it has been spackled and duct-taped and caulked back together many times as it is. [p. 258] Anne Lamott
What is reading, in the last analysis, but an interchange of thought between writer and reader? If the book enters the reader's mind just as it left the writer's -- without any of the additions and modifications inevitably produced by contact with a new body of thought -- it has been read to no purpose. Edith Wharton
Richard Brinsley Sheridan quote: "My hair has been in training some time."
My hair has been in training some time. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The entire piece has been devised with the French in mind. In France, fornication in the streets with total strangers is *compulsory*. John Wilmot
Error is related to truth as sleeping is to waking. I have observed that when one has been in error, one turns to truth as though revitalized. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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