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Thing Quotes (page 496)

Oscar Wilde quote: "Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages..."
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness. Oscar Wilde
William Shakespeare quote: "There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things."
There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things. William Shakespeare
Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof. Zora Neale Hurston
Antonio Machado quote: "Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it."
Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it. Antonio Machado
Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at things of this earth other than as colorful, variegated, and exciting, and so, it cannot reduce life, with all its pain, horror, suffering, and ecstasy, to a unified tonality of boredom and complaint. By necessity poetry is therefore on the side of being and against nothingness. Czeslaw Milosz
What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing everyone else a favor. Kazuo Ishiguro
Dean Koontz quote: "Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing."
Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing. Dean Koontz
Rumi quote: "Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with..."
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. Rumi
If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be. Stephen King
Paulo Coelho quote: "the grandeur of God reveals itself through simple things"
the grandeur of God reveals itself through simple things Paulo Coelho
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out. Cormac McCarthy
George Orwell quote: "So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the..."
So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing. George Orwell
Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever! Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sophocles quote: "Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves..."
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish. Sophocles
If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it. Poppy Z. Brite

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