Altogether Quotes
599 Altogether quotes by 493 unique authors
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Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a…
— Barry Lopez
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Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is…
— Joan Didion
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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to…
— Cormac McCarthy
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The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.
— Joanne Harris
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Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear.
— Jeaniene Frost
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The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty…
— C.S. Lewis
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Last year, when Zora was a freshman, sophomores had seemed altogether a different kind of human: so very definite in their tastes and opinions, in…
— Zadie Smith
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The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I…
— Tennessee Williams
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned…
— Anthony Trollope
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A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a…
— Agatha Christie
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It’s obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in your…
— Andy Andrews
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He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he…
— Shirley Jackson
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Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and…
— Gail Carriger
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So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.
— Jim Butcher
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He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was…
— Daphne du Maurier
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The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys. Its feet were…
— Anais Nin
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The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is so brief, let…
— Lawrence Durrell
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