"Being with him was like being alone underwater……" — Ben Marcus
"Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced."
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33 Quotes by Ben Marcus
Ben Marcus has 33 quotes on this site.
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Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched…
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A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.
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Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.
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People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots. At the time of this…
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To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no…
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Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this…
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Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.
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Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to…
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RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full…
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Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.
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Sorry, I said to myself, wondering how many times in my marriage I'd said that, how many times I'd meant…
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A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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