Thing Quotes (page 417)

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• useless
• new
• beautiful

All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and its poetry can be beautiful; it can make us shiver with therecognition of things we have always suspected or felt. It can draw us back to times when the earth was new to man, and wondrous. But always we come back to the way the earth is now. Anne Rice

• interesting
• transit
• transitioning

Besides, interesting things happen along borders—transitions—not in the middle where everything is the same. Neal Stephenson

• heartbreak
• touching
• touch

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness. Henri Barbusse

• wishes
• wishing
• reward

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing. Mark Twain

• beautiful
• beauty
• look

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists. I have to force people to look at things. Alexander McQueen

• humility
• world
• worldly

Therefore the sage holds in his embrace the one thing (of humility), and manifests it to all the world. Lao Tzu

• life
• continuance
• desirability

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting. Kim Stanley Robinson

• end
• sentence
• terrible things

A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with. Winston Churchill

• god
• inspirational
• time

The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him. Thomas Merton

• fall
• words
• together

Because it makes me happy when the words fall together and the picture comes and the make-believe people do things that delight me. But it's better with you, Constant Reader. Always better with you. Stephen King

• alone
• people
• off

If people let other people alone, people would be better off. It's always people that screw things up for people anyway. Nora Roberts

• him
• heartbreak
• life

I hung my head, and I felt someone, Fang, gather me gently to him. My cheek rested on his shoulder, and my silent tears soaked his torn shirt.He felt warm and strong and heartbreakingly familiar. And at that moment, not a single thing in my life was certain, strong, or whole. Nothing. Least of all Fang. James Patterson

• attempts
• attempted
• cannot

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden. Aesop

• my brother
• dark
• things change

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry. The Korova Milkbar was a milk-plus mesto, and you may, O my brothers, have forgotten what these mestos were like, things changing so skorry these days, and everybody very quick to forget, newspapers not being read much neither. Anthony Burgess

• you me
• believe
• time

And although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things - time and an emotional replacement - to fully mend one. Emily Giffin