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 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,...
