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Telling Quotes (page 197)

Oscar Wilde quote: "A mask tells us more than a face."
A mask tells us more than a face. Oscar Wilde
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "Step onto the road and there’s no telling where you might be..."
Step onto the road and there’s no telling where you might be swept off to. J. R. R. Tolkien
Glaring at the Gasman, ter Borcht said, “Your time is coming to an end, you pathetic failure of an experiment. Vhat you say now is how you vill be remembered.” Gazzy’s blue eyes flashed. “Then you can remember me telling you to kiss my-” “Enough!” ter Borcht said. James Patterson
Barney's Dad was really bad so Barney hatched a planwhen his dad said "Eat your peas."Barney shouted no and ran. Barney tricked his mean old dad and locked him in the cellar. Barney's Mom never found out where he'd gone, Cause Barney didn't tell her. There his dad spent his life eating mice and gruel. With every bite for fifty yearshe was sorry he'd been cruel Bill Watterson
I could tell I was at the gateway of a region half-bewitched through the piling-up of unbroken time-accumulations; a region where old, strange things have had a chance to grow and linger because they have never been stirred up. H. P. Lovecraft
I knew how I sounded - slow and oafish, like the cousin who gets ditched and goes on playing alone, as if he'd planned it that way. I couldn't quite tell her about the daily beauty, how I didn't tire of seeing 6 a. m. light on the telephone wires. When I was younger, I'd expected to grow out of the gap between the self I knew and what I heard myself say. I'd expected to feel more like one single person. Michael Cunningham
But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain. Thomas Paine
I proved him a liar but John made him look like a fool. All the time Ewell was on the stand I couldn’t dare look at John and keep a straight face. John looked at him as if he were a three-legged chicken or a square egg. Don’t tell me judges don’t try to prejudice juries. Harper Lee
Let him tell them the truth. Before the Gospel is a word, it is silence. It is the silence of their own lives and of his life. It is life with the sound turned off so that for a moment or two you can experience it not in terms of the words you make it bearable by but for the unutterable mystery that it is. Let him say, "Be silent and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10). Be silent and know that even by my silence and absence I am known. Be silent and listen to the stones cry out. Out of the... Frederick Buechner
Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off Augusten Burroughs
I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited. How explain that? I will tell you: in consequence of their limitation they take immediate and secondary causes for primary ones, and in that way persuade themselves more quickly and easily than other people do that they have found an infallible foundation for their activity, and their minds are at ease and you know that is the chief thing. Fyodor Dostoevsky
. For if you know whatyou want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you donot know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal withyou. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment. Alan Watts
Bob Dylan quote: "It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they..."
It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you. Bob Dylan
Augusten Burroughs quote: "Nothing surprises me now," I tell him. I am stoic. I am Joan..."
Nothing surprises me now," I tell him. I am stoic. I am Joan of Arc, with liver damage and an unused penis. Augusten Burroughs
Thomas Hardy quote: "Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels..."
Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these trick? Thomas Hardy

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