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Worldly Quotes (page 147)

The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises. Philip K. Dick
He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he accepts most reluctantly, but still it is there with the other impossibilities of this world which is too full of weeping for a child to understand. Edmund Wilson
True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring? once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresom? except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners. And, as is true of any other strong and addicting drug,... Stephen King
So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end. Anne Rice
The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. Margaret Bourke-White
Malcolm Bradbury quote: "Marriage, [...], the most advanced form of warfare in the..."
Marriage, [...], the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world. Malcolm Bradbury
Goldie Hawn quote: "Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from..."
Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world. Goldie Hawn
Paulo Coelho quote: "the power of beauty: what must the world be like for ugly women?"
the power of beauty: what must the world be like for ugly women? Paulo Coelho
We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain!" They're going "You can't claim us, we live here! Five hundred million of us!" "Do you have a flag …? "No..." "Well, if you don't have a flag, then you can't have a country. Those are the rules... that I just made up! Eddie Izzard
You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of love. You showed me what it was like to care for another, and I am a better man because of it. I don't want you to ever forget that. Nicholas Sparks
What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment? Henry Miller
John Muir quote: "Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world."
Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. John Muir
How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is merely rocks and clouds and lava and blackness. It's a village scraped raw by warm waters leaving not a trace of what existed before. Doug Coupland
Wallace Stevens quote: "A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman."
A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman. Wallace Stevens
In a solemn way, as if he had just thought of it, he said: The world is moving ahead. Yes, I said, it's moving ahead, but it's revolving around the sun. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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