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Thing Quotes (page 435)

Italo Calvino quote: "Falsehood is never in words; it is in things."
Falsehood is never in words; it is in things. Italo Calvino
What began as downsizing went on to wholesale abandonment. Schools closed, libraries and academies shut their doors, professional grammarians and teachers of rhetoric found themselves out of work. There were more important things to worry about than the fate of books. Stephen Greenblatt
Now understand me well--it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary. [from "Song of the Open Road"] Walt Whitman
Anything is better than the silence when she answered to hands gesturing and was indifferent to the movement of lips. When she saw every little thing and colors leaped smoldering into view. She will forgo the most violent of sunsets, stars as fat as dinner plates and all the blood of autumn and settle for the palest yellow if it comes from her Beloved. Toni Morrison
Is it rash to assume that when a practised writer says a thing, he is more likely to mean what he says than what his commentators think he means? W. Somerset Maugham
Going to Walden is not so easy a thing As a green visit. It is the slow and difficult Trick of living, and finding it where you are. Mary Oliver
Now I have a theory that if a woman wants to keep a man she only needs to say two things: She believes in him and he's got a big a cock. That's all it takes. It doesn't even have to be true. Ethan Hawke
If "the Nature Cruise of the Century" had come off as planned, the division of duties would have been typical of the management of so many organizations a million years ago, with the nominal leader specializing in sociable balderdash, and with the supposed second-in-command burdened with the responsibility of understanding how things really worked, and what was really going on. Kurt Vonnegut
... I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last...-Adrienne (on telling her daughter about Paul) Nicholas Sparks
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. Haruki Murakami
Shusaku Endo quote: "The important thing in this life is to link your sadness to..."
The important thing in this life is to link your sadness to the sadness of others. Shusaku Endo
Midway along the journey of our life. I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. How hard it is to tell what it was like, this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn(the thought of it brings back all my old fears), a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer. But if I would show the good that came of it. I must talk about things other than the good. Dante Alighieri
Elegance is the correct posture if the writing is to be perfect. It’s the same with life: when all superfluous things have been discarded, we discover simplicity and concentration. The simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be, even though, at first, it may seem uncomfortable. Paulo Coelho
Alain de Botton quote: "There may be significant things to learn about people by..."
There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most. Alain de Botton
There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if you want things to work out well, it's best to know the rules and only break them if you're playing a different game and following those rules. Orson Scott Card

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