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Worldly Quotes (page 567)

These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat. John Cheever
Alexander Dumas quote: "Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you..."
Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world. Alexander Dumas
It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster."Adele, Henry's Mother Joyce Maynard
Salman Rushdie quote: "The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying..."
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it. Salman Rushdie
Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world. Virginia Woolf
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do Oscar Wilde
Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his wife and son, who, very distant at first, gradually come closer and closer, till lips and book and head are clearly before him, though still lovely and unfamiliar from the intensity of his isolation and the waste of ages and the perishing of the stars, and finally putting his pipe in his pocket and bending his magnificent head before her—who will blame him if he does... Virginia Woolf
I don't believe you know anything about a man like me or a country like this. It takes rough men, Miss Fair, to tame a rough country; rough men, but good men. Your father is in that class. As for you, I don't think you'd measure up, and you'll do well to leave it. You're a hothouse flower, very soft, very appealing and very useless...In the world you are going to, men want pretty useless women. They want toys for their lighte moments, and we have those women out here, too, only we have... Louis L'Amour
The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. Washington Irving
Maurice Sendak quote: "Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to..."
Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things. Maurice Sendak
people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change. Eric Hoffer
Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world. Albert Camus
Mos Def quote: "Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall..."
Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH Mos Def
William C. Bryant quote: "Weep not that the world changes -did it keep a stable..."
Weep not that the world changes -did it keep a stable changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep. William C. Bryant
Dean Koontz quote: "The world is hat we make it, and our future is ours to shape."
The world is hat we make it, and our future is ours to shape. Dean Koontz

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