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254 Arrangement quotes by 220 unique authors

It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be… — Carol Shields
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and… — Kurt Vonnegut
We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different… — Albert Einstein
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by… — J D Salinger
Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I… — Alberto Manguel
Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe… — Ambrose Bierce
Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge… — Joseph Conrad
What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise… — Margaret Atwood
I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to… — Joan Didion
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this… — Wendell Berry
He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement. — J D Salinger
When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our best interests, and… — Tobias Wolff
By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents — Aristotle
If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters… — Michael Ende
I had a standing arrangement with God: I'd agree to believe in him—barely—so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays. — Richelle Mead
So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of… — Thomas Jefferson
It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes… — Alberto Manguel
He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent. — Kurt Vonnegut
When Vishous pushed open the door to the exam room, he got a gander at the kind of seating arrangement that made him think fondly… — J R Ward
What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle… — Carl Sagan
Got up this morning and could not find my glasses. Finally had to seek assistance. Kate [Winslet] found them inside a flower arrangement. — Emma Thompson
He took a hairpin out of my untidy hair (by now my complicated arrangement of ringlets must have looked as if a couple of birds… — Kerstin Gier
What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all… — Alan Watts
There’s more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can’t lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your… — Cassandra Clare

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