They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked higher than the pyramids; they had killed themselves over the failure to find...
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Jeffrey Eugenides
The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.
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Neil Gaiman
If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game;...
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Milan Kundera
When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.
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Catherynne M. Valente
I have fallen in love with the world And I am aware that I have chosenthe most dangerous lover of them all.
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Rod McKuen
More Quotes By Laurence Sterne
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.
If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains, --then certes the soul does not inhabit there.
I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and of what kind of a mortal I am, by the one, would give you a better relish for the other:...
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the...
We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them
