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Worldly Quotes (page 491)

Have you, in truth, ever seen something so heartbreakingly lovely? What are we to make of a world where stars shine bright in the midst of so much darkness and gloom? Kate DiCamillo
But who are we, where do we come from. When all those years. Nothing but idle talk is left. And we are nowhere in the world?"= MEETING = Boris Pasternak
Suzanne Collins quote: "Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world,..."
Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music. Suzanne Collins
DAISY: I never knew you were such a realist-I thought you were more poetic. Where's your imagination? There are many sides to reality. Choose the one that's best for you. Escape into the world of imagination. Eugene Ionesco
Rebecca West quote: "the world had gone too far in its enthusiasm for moderation..."
the world had gone too far in its enthusiasm for moderation and the thing had to be stopped Rebecca West
William Goldman quote: "This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never..."
This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it. William Goldman
If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because there are so many, you just can't see how beautiful it really is. Betty Smith
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world. Thomas Nagel
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness..."
Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world. David Herbert Lawrence
Thomas Carlyle quote: "The history of the world is but a biography of great men."
The history of the world is but a biography of great men. Thomas Carlyle
An hour ago on the sand-shore he has been looking at her as if she were the only being of any importance in the world. And now she was a nobody. L. M. Montgomery
I can see how I could write a bold account of myself as a passionate man who rose from humble beginnings to cut a wide swath in the world, whose crimes along the way might be written off to extravagance and love and art, and could even almost believe some of it myself on certain days after the sun went down if I’d had a snort or two and was in Los Angeles and it was February and I was twenty-four, but I find a truer account in the Herald-Star, where it says: “Mr. Gary Keillor visited at the... Garrison Keillor
I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me. Nora Roberts
It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art matters. Happiness matters. Love matters. Good matters. Evil matters. Slam the fridge door. They are the only things that matter and they are of course precisely the things that science goes out of its way to ignore. Stephen Fry
When they saw the host of chameleon butterflies and the way they both clothed the girl Ayesha and provided her with her only solid food, these visitors were amazed, and retreated with confounded expectations, that is to say with a hole in their pictures of the world that they could not paper over. Salman Rushdie

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