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Thing Quotes (page 494)

Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "All things want to float."
All things want to float. Rainer Maria Rilke
youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is... Anthony Burgess
Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling themselves into the water, it is joy itself that shows in the gesture, notwithstanding any sadness the divers may actually feel. When someone jumps into the water fully clothed, it is another thing entirely: the only person who jumps into the water fully clothed is a person trying to drown; and a person trying to drown does not dive... Milan Kundera
Harriet Beecher Stowe quote: "Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us,..."
Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes! Harriet Beecher Stowe
I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor. Jodi Picoult
When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing. John Steinbeck
A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate. Seth Godin
What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation. Alain de Botton
Dodie Smith quote: "I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money?..."
I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things? Dodie Smith
The truth is that we all live by leaving behind; no doubt we all profoundly know that we are immortal and that sooner or later every man will do all things and know everything. Jorge Luis Borges
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other..."
In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better. Laurell K. Hamilton
this is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others, Plato
Haruki Murakami quote: "The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird,"
The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird, Haruki Murakami
If the thing you want beyond anything cannot be, it is much better to recognize it and go forward, instead of dwelling on one's regrets and hopes. Agatha Christie
I think that love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time, and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last.... I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me. Peter S. Beagle

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