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When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of prejudice and fixed ideas, when all the time it is more likely that the machine which contains them is only an elaborate cement-mixer, and when the thinking is finished, those whirling thoughts are smoothed into the unchanged conventional mould and seeing them set solid enough to dance, to build, to travel upon, we would never dream of... Janet Frame
Louisa May Alcott quote: "It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end,"..."
It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end," said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder. Louisa May Alcott
Jodi Picoult quote: "It's never the differences between people that suprise us. ..."
It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common. Jodi Picoult
Sophocles quote: "To Never Have been born may be the greatest boon of all"
To Never Have been born may be the greatest boon of all Sophocles
In spite of Stepan Arkadyevitch's efforts to be an attentive father and husband, he never could keep in his mind that he had a wife and children. Leo Tolstoy
Ann Patchett quote: "It was never the right time or it was always the right time,..."
It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it. Ann Patchett
My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace. (New Year's Eve, 1947) Patricia Highsmith
Ashenden was in the habit of asserting that he was never bored. It was one of his notions that only such persons were as had no resources in themselves and it was but the stupid that depended on the outside world for their amusement.[Giulia Lazzari] W. Somerset Maugham
If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you. Charles Spurgeon
However inadequate our ideas of causal efficacy may be, we are less wide of the mark when we say that our ideas and feelings have it, than the Automatists are when they say they haven’t it. As in the night all cats are gray, so in the darkness of metaphysical criticism all causes are obscure. But one has no right to pull the pall over the psychic half of the subject only . . . whilst in the same breath one dogmatizes about material causation as if Hume, Kant, and Lotze had never been born. William James
I go out on the side of a hill, maybe hunting deer, and sit there and see the shadow of night coming over the hill, and I can swear to you there is a part of me that is absolutely untouched by anything civilized. There's a part of me that has never heard of a telephone. James Dickey
If there's anything I dislike it's the violin", she answered. "Why one should want to hear anyone scrape the hairs of a horse's tail against the guts of a dead cat is something I shall never understand. W. Somerset Maugham
Still, if history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. Acceptance of the supernatural conveyed a great advantage throughout prehistory when the brain was evolving. Thus it is in sharp contrast to biology, which was developed as a product of the modern age and is not underwritten by genetic algorithms. The uncomfortable truth is that the two... E. O. Wilson
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion. J. D. Salinger
Paul Theroux quote: "You go away for a long time and return a different person -..."
You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back. Paul Theroux

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