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Thing Quotes (page 912)

Joyce Maynard quote: "No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to..."
No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget. Joyce Maynard
There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead. Anne Rice
Edith Wharton quote: "It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd..."
It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them. Edith Wharton
It was too small a step, somehow, too puny a thing to settle for after having lost somuch. So the courtship continued, and the more Tom came todespise his job, the more stubbornly he defended his own inertia; and the more inert he became, the more he despised himself. Paul Auster
The only thing worth writing about is people. People. Human beings. Men and women whose individuality must be created, line by line, insight by insight. Harlan Ellison
... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most societies it determines one's expectations, activities, outlook, ethics, manners—almost everything. Vocabulary. Semiotic usages. Clothing. Even food. Women... women tend to eat less... It's extremely hard to separate the innate differences from the learned ones. Even where women participate equally with men in the society, they still after all do all the childbearing,... Ursula K. Le Guin
The other day Nan said, 'Nothing can ever be quite the same for any of us again.' It made me feel rebellious. Why shouldn't things be the same again - when everything is over and Jem and Jerry are back? We'll all be happy and jolly again and these days will seem just like a bad dream. L. M. Montgomery
Barefoot or first thing in the morning, I feel beautiful. I didn't always feel that way, but I feel that way now. When somebody loves you, and when you make somebody else happy, when your presence seems to make them happy, you suddenly feel like the most beautiful person in the world. Angelina Jolie
It’s the same thing. Passion is passion. It’s the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn’t matter where it’s directed. Nicholas Sparks
Rene Descartes quote: "In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of..."
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things. Rene Descartes
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. To my own surprise I burst out with hot conviction. Only a few years ago I enjoyed my tranquility; now I am so disturbed by the outer world and by human quality in general that I want to put things right, as though I still owed a debt to life. I must calm down. I am far too frail to indulge in moral fervor. Florida Scott-Maxwell
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. Woody Allen
Epictetus quote: "Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves."
Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves. Epictetus
A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done. George Carlin

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