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[Jos] Saramago for the last 25 years stood his own with any novelist of the Western world [..] He was the equal of Philip Roth, Gunther Grass, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. His genius was remarkably versatile? he was at once a great comic and a writer of shocking earnestness and grim poignancy. It is hard to believe he will not survive. Harold Bloom
Call it a good marriage -For no one ever questioned. Her warmth, his masculinity, Their interlocking views; Except one stray graphologist. Who frowned in speculation. At her h's and her s's, His p's and w's. Though few would still subscribe. To the monogamic axiom. That strife below the hip-bones. Need not estrange the heart, Call it a good marriage: More drew those two together, Despite a lack of children, Than pulled them apart. Call it a good marriage: They never fought in public, They... Robert Graves
Jhonen Vasquez quote: "It's a frightening world to be alone in."
It's a frightening world to be alone in. Jhonen Vasquez
If he'd learned one thing while he'd been away, it was that loneliness is the most taboo subject in the world. Forget sex or politics or religion. Or even failure. Loneliness is what clears out a room. Doug Coupland
People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who do not recognize their own, quietly and happily, but know that it is foreign to them. As they do by books, so they quote the sunset and the star, and do not make them theirs. Worse yet, they live as foreigners in a world of truth, and quote thoughts, and thus disown them. Quotation confesses inferiority Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town..."
Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun. Zora Neale Hurston
Erik Satie quote: "I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old."
I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old. Erik Satie
Desmond Tutu quote: "Do a little bit of good wherever you are; its those little..."
Do a little bit of good wherever you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world Desmond Tutu
Paulo Coelho quote: "It has been said that there is no such thing as coincidence in..."
It has been said that there is no such thing as coincidence in this world. Paulo Coelho
John Steinbeck quote: "Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a..."
Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten. John Steinbeck
For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won. L. M. Montgomery
Nelson Mandela quote: "You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than..."
You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution. Nelson Mandela
He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits. Cormac McCarthy
Confucius quote: "In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not..."
In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral. Confucius
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable George Orwell

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