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Worldly Quotes (page 303)

Umberto Eco quote: "By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us..."
By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something about the world. Umberto Eco
Yes, Heaven is thine; but this. Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely - flowers, And the shadow of thy perfect bliss. Is the sunshine of ours. Edgar Allan Poe
But about the smell of rancid butter... There are good associations too. When I think of this rancid butter I see myself standing in a little, old world courtyard, a very smelly, very dreary courtyard. Through the cracks in the shutters strange figures peer out at me. Henry Miller
So you're the winner of this game show," Seth says, "and you get a choice between a five-piece living room set from Broyhill, suggested retail price three thousand dollars— or—a ten-day trip to the old world charm of Europe." Most people, Seth says, would take the living room set. "It's just that people want something to show for their effort," Seth says. "Like the pharaohs and their pyramids. Chuck Palahniuk
George R. R. Martin quote: "Womb of the World"
Womb of the World George R. R. Martin
... he didn't know where I lived, because I think he feared, in his heart of hearts, that I didn't trust him, that my work had slowly eroded the love for him which I felt. But I did trust him... I did love him. I didn't love anyone in the world but him. I just didn't want anyone to know where I lived. Anne Rice
Umberto Eco quote: "We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by..."
We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay. Umberto Eco
Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black. Martin Amis
She quickly discovered that the world is divided into people who know how to be comfortable by themselves on a bar chair and people who do not. Jonathan Franzen
You don't necessarily meet a lot of people in this world. Not when you let yourself get distracted by music and the passing of hours. Michael Cunningham
Now I don't know if you realize it, but the film industry's a small world. It's like living in a tenement at one end of a back alley. Not only do you see everybody's dirty laundry, but once rumors start, you can't stop 'em. Haruki Murakami
thinking about the misery of the world is a favourite contemporary occupation. and if you can't think the television set will think for you. Iris Murdoch
Joyce Maynard quote: "There was a way of looking at the world where practically..."
There was a way of looking at the world where practically every single thing that happened had some kind of double meaning. Joyce Maynard
That’s the beauty aboot being polis: it doesnae really matter whether or not everybody hates you, as long as they’re civil tae your face and can put up a good front. You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia. Irvine Welsh
Our maester chuckled at me and told us that Prince Rhaegar was certain to defeat this rebel. That was when Stark said, 'In this world only winter is certain. We may lose our heads, it's true . . . but what if we should prevail?' My father sent him on his way with his head still on his shoulders. 'If you lose,' he told Lord Eddard, 'you were never here.'" "No more than I was," said Davos Seaworth. George R. R. Martin

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