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Paul Auster quote: "If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn..."
If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics Paul Auster
Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses and moon daisies, Stella stood and listened, swaying a little as the flowers and trees were swaying, her spirit voice singing loudly, though her lips were still, and every pulse in her body beating its hammer strokes in time to the song. Elizabeth Goudge
Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to be this ugly? Haruki Murakami
Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine. C. S. Lewis
It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable. Nicholas Sparks
I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. Stephen King
Sue Grafton quote: "There were pieces missing yet but they would fall into place..."
There were pieces missing yet but they would fall into place and then maybe the whole of it would make sense. Sue Grafton
... and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone. Rudyard Kipling
Behold how each of your virtues is covetous of the highest place; each wants your whole spirit to be her herald, it wants your whole power, in wrath, hatred, and love. Friedrich Nietzsche
Gore Vidal quote: "History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost..."
History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place. Gore Vidal
On a sub, you know, there's no place for things to drain to. The survivors claimed that the blood was knee-deep all through the submarine. Neal Stephenson
The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it. The entire storm was two flakes. Richard Brautigan
Mr. Suttree it is our understanding that at curfew rightly decreed by law and in that hour wherein night draws to its proper close and the new day commences and contrary to conduct befitting a person of your station you betook yourself to various low places within the shire of McAnally and there did squander several ensuing years in the company of thieves, derelicts, miscreants, pariahs, poltroons, spalpeens, curmudgeons, clotpolls, murderers, gamblers, bawds, whores, trulls, brigands,... Cormac McCarthy
Tori Amos quote: "I'm an acquired taste. I'm anchovies. If I was potato chips I..."
I'm an acquired taste. I'm anchovies. If I was potato chips I could go more places. Tori Amos
Jerzy Kosinski quote: "There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to..."
There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. Jerzy Kosinski

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