Attached Quotes
756 quotes by 644 authors
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Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
— Leonard Cohen
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It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes?…
— Virginia Woolf
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He had lunch with Cecilia that afternoon. They ate their corned beef on rye and cream cheese with lox in a diner peopled by waiters…
— Mary Gaitskill
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Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with…
— Fidel Castro
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The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form…
— Dave Barry
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Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature;…
— James Joyce
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I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms and qualities in…
— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each other by the…
— Henri Barbusse
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a kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness.…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school.…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Any place you love is the world to youâ€, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early…
— Oscar Wilde
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People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were…
— Peter Drucker
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The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and…
— Jane Austen
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My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him…
— Emile Durkheim
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He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
— Emily Bronte
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I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas -…
— Haruki Murakami
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