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Alfred Adler quote: "Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not..."
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. Alfred Adler
…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future. Chaim Potok
But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him. Patricia Highsmith
As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper. Salman Rushdie
Walt Whitman quote: "My words itch at your ears till you understand them"
My words itch at your ears till you understand them Walt Whitman
Enid Bagnold quote: "If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about..."
If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier. Enid Bagnold
Leo Tolstoy quote: "Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand."
Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand. Leo Tolstoy
He was irritable with Orr, who had found two crab apples somewhere and walked with them in his cheeks until Yossarian spied them there and made him take them out. Then Orr found two horse chestnuts somewhere and slipped those in until Yossarian detected them and snapped at him again to take the crab apples out of his mouth. Orr grinned and replied that they were not crab apples but horse chestnuts and that they were not in his mouth but in his hands, but Yossarian was not able to understand a... Joseph Heller
Heinrich Heine quote: "Where words leave off, music begins."
Where words leave off, music begins. Heinrich Heine
Lysistrata: Oh, Calonic, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly... Calonic: And they are quite right, upon my word! Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women are summoned to meet for a matter of the last importance, they lie abed instead of coming. Calonic: Oh, they will come, my dear; but 'tis not easy you know, for a woman to leave the house. One is busy pottering about her husband; another is getting the servant up; a third is putting her child... Aristophanes
I was at a party in 1989 and Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie were sitting on a sofa wondering where the next generation of great British writers would come from. As we talked, it became clear they had never read a word by me. Jeanette Winterson
These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. That's because a good short story crosses the borders of our nations and our prejudices and our beliefs. A good short story asks a question that can't be answered in simple terms. And even if we come up with some understanding, years later, while glancing out of a window, the story still has the... Walter Mosley
Alexander Dumas quote: "Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom..."
Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope. Alexander Dumas
Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words. Charlotte Bronte
William Golding quote: "If you accept life dully, you can go through it moving not..."
If you accept life dully, you can go through it moving not among things but among words. William Golding

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