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Thing Quotes (page 894)

Jeanette Winterson quote: "Although wherever you are going is always in front of you,..."
Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead. Jeanette Winterson
Ogden Nash quote: "Progress is a fine thing, but it's gone on long enough."
Progress is a fine thing, but it's gone on long enough. Ogden Nash
History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the texture of collected knowledge, took faith from the solid and availing stuff of our experience. Even if we believe that history is a workwheel powered by human blood -- read the speeches of Mussolini -- at least we've known the thing together. A single narrative sweep, not ten thousand wisps of disinformation. (82) Don DeLillo
Maybe what has to happen is that the individual must allow himself to be swept along, must find himself in the stream of no-choice, the single direction. This is what makes things inevitable. You use the restrictions and penalties they invent to make yourself stronger. History means to merge. The purpose of history is to climb out of your own skin. (101) Don DeLillo
Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure. Tom Robbins
The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after. Ernest Hemingway
Pat Conroy quote: "it was but one of the things that made friendship with me an..."
it was but one of the things that made friendship with me an ambivalent enterprise. Pat Conroy
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to..."
It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better. Friedrich Nietzsche
Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house. Terry Prachett
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. Theodore Roosevelt
Jenny Holzer quote: "Boredom makes you do crazy things."
Boredom makes you do crazy things. Jenny Holzer
Douglas Adams quote: "Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With..."
Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To. Douglas Adams
Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words. Terry Prachett
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they like, but they cannot vanish what has been written in the past, though they try often enough...People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself. Doris Lessing
The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations. Paulo Coelho

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