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Thing Quotes (page 798)

Barbara Kingsolver quote: "For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most..."
For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things..."
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can. Barbara Kingsolver
You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in the thick of this, approaching some partial vision, you will (I swear) find yourself on the receiving end of - of all things - an "idea for a story," and you will, God save you, start thinking about writing some fiction of your own. Then you will understand, in what I fancy might be a blinding flash, that all this passionate thinking is what fiction is... Annie Dillard
There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are..These occasions are rare, but they happen? despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths... Hunter S. Thompson
[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you could also be critically astute and radical and have a minority opinion that was profoundly moral. Anne Lamott
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "The sting of a fly, the Congolese say, can launch the end of..."
The sting of a fly, the Congolese say, can launch the end of the world. How simply things begin. Barbara Kingsolver
Lee Iacocca quote: "It's a good thing god doesn't let you look a year or two into..."
It's a good thing god doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself. Lee Iacocca
If you're lucky enough to fall in love, that's one thing. Otherwise all that was ever truly beautiful to me was boyhood. It's the meal we sup on for the rest of our lives. Love puts the icing on life. But if you don't find it...you must call on your childhood memories over and over till you do. Leon Uris
And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible. James Agee
I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me. Ralph Ellison
Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave. Jack London
Cormac McCarthy quote: "But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can..."
But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse Cormac McCarthy
I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn t done that. I hadn t done this thing and I had done another. And so? Albert Camus
That the boat did not upset I simply state as a fact. Why it did not upset I am unable to offer any reason. I have often thought about the matter since, but I have never succeeded in arriving at any satisfactory explanation of the phenomenon. Possibly the result may have been brought about by the natural obstinacy of all things in this world. The boat may possibly have come to the conclusion, judging from a cursory view of our behaviour, that we had come out for a morning's suicide, and had... Jerome K. Jerome
Angela Carter quote: "Losing their names, these things underwent a process of..."
Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation. Angela Carter

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