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Worldly Quotes (page 205)

With just the ‘Carmagnole’ to sing he will only overthrow Louis XVI; but give him the ‘Marseillaise’ and he will liberate the world. Victor Hugo
A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is. Orhan Pamuk
Freya Stark quote: "If one were given a single window from which to look upon the..."
If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road. Freya Stark
The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world. Jeanette Winterson
What you call passion is not a spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Where passion dominates, that does not signify the presence of greater desire and ambition, but rather the misdirection of these qualities toward and isolated and false goal, with a consequent tension and sultriness in the atmosphere. Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the... Herman Hesse
Edward Bellamy quote: "The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great..."
The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty. Edward Bellamy
There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. J. R. R. Tolkien
Graham Greene quote: "In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey."
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey. Graham Greene
Garson Kanin quote: "I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world..."
I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in. Garson Kanin
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. Alice Walker
Helen Keller quote: "Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge..."
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light. Helen Keller
There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us. Cormac McCarthy
Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. Orson Scott Card
Hunter S. Thompson quote: "Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a..."
Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures. Hunter S. Thompson
Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale. Rafael Sabatini

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