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Worldly Quotes (page 551)

James Patterson quote: "Right now, America looks like a fatheaded, shortsighted,..."
Right now, America looks like a fatheaded, shortsighted, gas-guzzling arrogant blowhard to the rest of the world. James Patterson
John Donne quote: "My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die."
My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die. John Donne
Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning it into spirit. Then you did not fear death. If you did not have time, you perished. Nikos Kazantzakis
He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He said that the wolf is a being of great order and that it knows what men do not: that there is no order in this world save that which death has put there. Cormac McCarthy
What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind. Jack Kerouac
There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books. George Santayana
The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts....... Joseph Heller
I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mister Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened. But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the... J. R. R. Tolkien
Jack Kerouac quote: "Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day..."
Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world. Jack Kerouac
I believed, rather more accurately, that a work resolutely thought out and sought for in the hazards of the mind, systematically, and through a determined analysis of definite and previously prescribed conditions, whatever its value might be once it had been produced, did not leave the mind of its creator without having modified him, and forced him to recognize and in some way reorganize himself. I said to myself that it was not the accomplished work, and its appearance and effect in the... Paul Valery
Emily Dickinson quote: "Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing..."
Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them. Emily Dickinson
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside. James Joyce
Clive Barker quote: "There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that..."
There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat. Clive Barker
Karl Marx quote: "The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of..."
The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs. Karl Marx
You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with - at the end of it, you and I are just as stripped and homeless. And you and I are the last remembrance of all that immeasurable greatness which has been created in all the thousands of years between their time and ours, and it is in memory of all that vanished splendour that we live and love and weep and cling to one another. Boris Pasternak

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