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Knowing Quotes (page 816)

Barbara Kingsolver quote: "you can't really know the person standing before you, because..."
you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece Barbara Kingsolver
As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living. Truman Capote
That body did not bleed while I carried it, Nesbit. You touch it but a moment, and it bleeds."No, I didn't kill her."... "The dead always know who to blame. They are very good that way. Laurell K. Hamilton
It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self - ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality, the truth which I recognise in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness - that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way. Ursula K. Le Guin
I hung my head. Ranger was next on the list. “Yo,” Ranger said when he answered. “Small problem.” “No kidding. Your car just went off the screen.” “It sort of burned up.” Silence. “And you know that keypad you gave me? It was in the car.” “Babe. Janet Evanovich
A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist. Henry Rollins
If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real. James Baldwin
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have a heart of a small boy...and I keep it in a jar at my desk. Stephen King
You're born, you know, the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean, that happens. You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free. Bob Dylan
I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and provincial prejudices. It is not my job to lull you with a false sense of the rightness of the universe. This wonderful and terrible occupation of recreating the world in a different way, each time fresh and strange, is an act of revolutionary guerrilla warfare. I stir the soup. I inconvenience you. I make your nose run and your eyeballs water. Harlan Ellison
Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles) are irrefutable or if you can mesh in a way that the fanatics accept you as god-inspired. This has long been the barrier to science assuming a mantle of divine revelation. Science is so obviously man-made. Fanatics (and many are fanatic on one subject or another) must know where you stand, but more important, must recognise who whispers in your ear." -... Frank Herbert
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four..."
But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left. Fyodor Dostoevsky
One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again. Agatha Christie
Oh, the comfort, the everlasting comfort of feeling safe within a person; having neither to weigh thoughts, nor measure words, but just pouring them all out; the chaff and the grain together; knowing well that a faithful hand will sort that which is good and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. Dinah Maria Mulock
R. A. Salvatore quote: "It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit..."
It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them. R. A. Salvatore

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