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When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it. A. A. Milne
The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive. Jeanette Winterson
I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and that it's the knockings and baterrings we sometimes hear in each other that keeps our intercourse from utter banaility. Elizabeth Bowen
Shelagh Delaney quote: "I’m not afraid of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness..."
I’m not afraid of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like. Shelagh Delaney
Haruki Murakami quote: "Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you..."
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart. Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami quote: "What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the..."
What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me. Haruki Murakami
Margaret Laurence quote: "What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside."
What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside. Margaret Laurence
Before the sparrow arrived, you had almost stopped thinking about flight. Then, last winter, it soared through the sky and landed in front of you, or more precisely on the windowsill of the covered balcony adjoining your bedroom. You knew the grimy window panes were caked with dead ants and dust, and smelt as sour as the curtains. But the sparrow wasn’t put off. It jumped inside the covered balcony and ruffled its feathers, releasing a sweet smell of tree bark into the air. Then it flew into... Ma Jian
Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it. Chaim Potok
When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be? or so it feel? welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence. C. S. Lewis
In my poetry a rhyme Would seem to me almost insolent. Inside me contend Delight at the apple tree in blossom And horror at the house-painter’s speeches. But only the second Drives me to my desk. Bertolt Brecht
Franz Kafka quote: "A book must be an ice ax to break the sea frozen inside us"
A book must be an ice ax to break the sea frozen inside us Franz Kafka
Terry Prachett quote: "The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head."
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. Terry Prachett
George R. R. Martin quote: "She would be no one if that was what it took. No one had no..."
She would be no one if that was what it took. No one had no holes inside her. George R. R. Martin
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look? J. D. Salinger

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