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Things Quotes (page 287)

John Updike quote: "There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming..."
There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first. John Updike
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the..."
Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same thing. David Herbert Lawrence
It’s not supposed to end this way. Whatever else Roland and his ka-tet knows, that’s one thing that they ken for sure. This business ain’t supposed to end, and end bloody, at the base of some godforsaken pile of rock called Jericho Hill. Because John Farson is evil, and they’re good, and good may have its setbacks and bumps along the road, but when the final bell gongs, only good is left to hear its peals. They know that. They just…they know it. This ain’t how it’s gonna end. ‘Cept, deep... Stephen King
Mitch Albom quote: "Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one..."
Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Mitch Albom
She felt as if things were moving past her as she lay stretched on the bed under the single sheet. But it’s not landscape any longer, she thought; it’s people’s lives, their changing lives. Virginia Woolf
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization. William Morris
That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything. Jeffrey Eugenides
Among other things, my own experience has led me to believe that American naivete can sometimes be more than it seems; it can hide something we Europeans can't or don't want to understand. Roberto Bolano
Orson Welles quote: "There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee,..."
There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women... Orson Welles
A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia. Dale Carnegie
Louise L. Hay quote: "I am in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing."
I am in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing. Louise L. Hay
Life was charmed but without politics or religion. It was the life of children of the children of the pioneers -life after God- a life of earthly salvation on the edge of heaven. Perhaps this is the finest thing to which we may aspire, the life of peace, the blurring between dream life and real life - and yet I find myself speaking these words with a sense of doubt. I think there was a trade-off somewhere along the line. I think the price we paid for our golden life was an inability to fully... Doug Coupland
Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table. The notion of having the conference first doesn't seem to occur to people. David Eddings
When mind uses itself without the hands it runs the circle and may go too fast.... The hand that shapes the mind into clay or written word slows thought to the gait of things and lets it be subject to accident and time. Purity is on the edge of evil, they say. Ursula K. Le Guin
When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day. William Shakespeare

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