"Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of……" — Anthony Doerr
"Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever."
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30 Quotes by Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr has 30 quotes on this site.
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My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say,…
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I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my…
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Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care…
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Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might…
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Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.
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Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new…
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We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add…
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I used to think...that I had to be careful with how much I lived. As if life was a pocketful…
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The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This…
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I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of…
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So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of…
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My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.
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More Forever Quotes
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it…
— Lance Armstrong
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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
— Lance Armstrong
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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go…
— Neil Armstrong
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Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're…
— Margaret Atwood
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We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not…
— Margaret Atwood
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The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.
— Paul Auster
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You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you…
— Richard Bach
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The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power…
— James A. Baldwin
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The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.
— Gerry Adams
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People are forever finding something wrong with you.
— Brigitte Bardot
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words…
— Venerable Bede
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