Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be." Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one
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Jalaluddin Rumi
But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?
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Graeme Simsion
Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.
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George Saunders
I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and...
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Raymond Carver
And, whoa! " He turned to Mr.D. "Your the wine dude? No way! " Mr. D turned hi eyes away from me and gave Nico a look of loathing. "The wine dude?"" Dionysus, right? Oh, wow! I've got your figurine! "" My figurine."" In my...
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Rick Riordan
More Quotes By Raymond Chandler
To say goodbye is to die a little.
I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have...
There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science...
Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and always, in all times and conditions, to seek the truth out and find it and let the chips fall where they may–until that time comes,...
