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Worldly Quotes (page 267)

She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her. Alice Walker
Those sages of the ancient world, unbound by dogma of any kind, thought as we do in terms of physics, or rather, physiology, as applied to the whole universe: they envisaged the end of man and the dying out of this sphere. Marguerite Yourcenar
A truly scientific philosophy will be more humble, more piecemeal, more arduous, offering less glitter of outward mirage to flatter fallacious hopes, but more indifferent to fate, and more capable of accepting the world without the tyrannous imposition of our human and temporary demands. Bertrand Russell
She could, at this stage of things, recognize signals like that, as the epileptic is said to—an odor, color, pure piercing grace note announcing his seizure. Afterward it is only this signal, really dross, this secular announcement, and never what is revealed during the attack, that he remembers. Oedipa wondered whether, at the end of this (if it were supposed to end), she too might not be left with only compiled memories of clues, announcements, intimations, but never the central truth... Thomas Pynchon
A lot is being said today about the influence that the myths and images of women have on all of us who are products of culture. I think it has been a peculiar confusion to the girl or woman who tries to write because she is peculiarly susceptible to language. She goes to poetry or fiction looking for her way of being in the world, since she too has been putting words and images together; she is looking eagerly for guides, maps, possibilities; and over and over in the ‘words’ masculine... Adrienne Rich
Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That is the way of the world. Alex Haley
Mitch Albom quote: "Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine..."
Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come. Mitch Albom
Terry Prachett quote: "Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different..."
Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that makes us human. Terry Prachett
There's a huge seal called 'impossibility' pasted all over this world. And don't ever forget that we're the only ones who can tear it off once and for all. Yukio Mishima
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Mammon, n. The god of the world's leading religion. His chief..."
Mammon, n. The god of the world's leading religion. His chief temple is in the city of New York Ambrose Bierce
Shakti Gawain quote: "The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world..."
The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be. Shakti Gawain
If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want to laugh more. I don't say that God is one grand laugh: I say that you've got to laugh hard before you can get anywhere near God. My whole aim in life is to get near to God, that is, to get nearer to myself. That's why it doesn't matter to me what road I take. But music is very important. Music is a tonic for the pineal gland. Music isn't Bach or Beethoven; music is the can opener of the soul.... Henry Miller
Margaret Laurence quote: "Too bad to deprive them, but if a person doesn't look after..."
Too bad to deprive them, but if a person doesn't look after herself in this world, no one else is likely to. Margaret Laurence
I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to man has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams. Ingmar Bergman
Ayn Rand quote: "The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it..."
The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours. Ayn Rand

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