Outsider Quotes (page 47)

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• life
• fear
• words

I fear I shall be a clinger to the outsides of words all my life. Virginia Woolf

• brother
• street
• my brother

In the outside world, my brother told me, people were as reckless as animals and fornicated with strangers on the street. Chuck Palahniuk

• integrity
• personal
• value

integrity means both personal wholeness and adherence to values outside yourself - especially goodness and truth John Adair

• time
• memories
• library

The library door was thick and none of the ordinary sounds that might have reminded them, might have held them back, could reach them. They were beyond the present, outside time, with no memories and no future, Ian Mcewan

• reality
• outsiders
• likes

He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside. Philip K. Dick

• backed
• release
• released

I went back outside and manually released my butt cheeks. Tina Fey

• running
• kindness
• castle

All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side of them to be subject of great floods. It takes a lot of water, and running strong, to sweep the outside edge of a river clear. Bram Stoker

• she
• insider
• inside

Lily might be icy on the outside, but inside she was Vesuvius. Charlaine Harris

• thinking
• fun
• look

All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down. Shirley Jackson

• pilot
• different
• kiss

La Maga did not know that my kisses were like eyes which began to open up beyond her, and that I went along outside as if I saw a different concept of the world, the dizzy pilot of a black prow which cut the water of time and negated it. Julio Cortazar

• wonderful
• health
• sometimes

Such decisions ab extra* are sometimes a wonderful relief to those whose habit it has been to decide, not only for themselves, but for every one else; and occasionally the relaxation of the strain which a character for infallible wisdom brings with it does much to restore health.*from outside Elizabeth Gaskell

• fly
• car
• white

And now I'm back outside again sitting in the white plastic chair looking at the dew on the gas cap of my car. A fly wants to bit me on the ankle. The mosquitoes are all asleep. They're just not out at this hour. Only one biting fly. And a mourning dove, who blows through his thumbs to make that sound. Nicholson Baker

• physics
• people
• soul

The world of the grotesque is the darkness within us. Well before Freud and Jung shined a light on the workings of the subconscious, this correlation between darkness and our subconscious, these two forms of darkness, was obvious to people. It wasn’t a metaphor, even. If you trace it back further, it wasn’t even a correlation. Until Edison invented the electric light, most of the world was totally covered in darkness. The physical darkness outside and the inner darkness of the soul were mixed... Haruki Murakami

• adventure
• adventuring
• outsiders

Adventure is not outside; it is within. Ray Stannard Baker

• learning
• to live
• victory

We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside. Joel Osteen