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Not Knowing Quotes (page 52)

In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear. Arthur Schopenhauer
I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural pauses. He is a writer who used pen and ink. He looked up from the page a lot, I believe, stared through his window and listened to birds, as most writers who are alone do. Some do not know the names of birds, though he did. Your eye is too quick and North American. Think about the speed of his pen. What an appalling, barnacled old first paragraph it is otherwise. Michael Ondaatje
The dreamer in her. Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it. That moment the dreamer in me. Fell in love with her and I knew it Ted Hughes
This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was. W. G. Sebald
In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere? "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and stratagems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous. C. S. Lewis
There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. A writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. Charles Bukowski
George R. R. Martin quote: "Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he..."
Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off. George R. R. Martin
She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly. J. M. Barrie
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "We make our way through Everything like thread passing through..."
We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know. Rainer Maria Rilke
I had always been suspicious of women who described the dissolution of their marriages as something that happened overnight. How could you not know? I'd thought. How could you miss all those signs? Well, let me tell you how: you were so busy putting out a fire directly in front of you that you were completely oblivious to the inferno raging at your back. Jodi Picoult
Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight to avoid this? Soren Kierkegaard
I forewarn you, this will be a rather long talk. I am an old man. I do not know how much longer I will live, and so I want to say what I have to say, while I have the strength to say it. ...Having been warned, some of you will wish to get comfortable. Pleasant dreams. Gordon B. Hinckley
Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you? T. S. Eliot
If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name. Richard Brautigan

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