Barbed Wire Quotes
40 quotes by 39 authors
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And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.
— Yehuda Amichai
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Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. It puts…
— Czeslaw Milosz
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It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.
— Raymond Chandler
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Lux’s frequent forged excuses from phys. Ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid t’s and b’s of her mother’s signature and then,…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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The heart of it all is mystery, and science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery--a ragged barbed-wire fence through which mystery…
— Rick Bass
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I first became fascinated with the Sears catalogue because all the people in its pages were perfect. Nearly everybody I knew had something missing, a…
— Harry Crews
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Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete…
— William S. Burroughs
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What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black,…
— Sylvia Plath
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One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this barbed wire fence…
— Jennifer Armintrout
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What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything…
— Ron Rash
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There was a danger whenever I was on home ground. It was the danger of seeing my life through other eyes than my own. Seeing…
— Alice Munro
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The miracle has passed me by; it has touched but not changed me; I still have the same name and I know I will probably…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.
— Pete Wentz
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What's so funny?" "Your panties have a bow," he said. I looked down. I was wearing a short tank top -not mine- and my blue…
— Ilona Andrews
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[Percy] kept hoping things would get better for Annabeth and him, but their lives just got more dangerous, as if the Three Fates were up…
— Rick Riordan
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When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering…
— Andrew O'Hagan
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If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die.
— Friedl And The Children Of Terezin
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I put a barbed wire fence around my heart, baby just to keep you out.
— Kellie Pickler
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An insulting telegram is a barbed wire.
— Nikhil Saluja
Who Wrote These Barbed Wire Quotes
39 authors contributed a total of 40 Barbed Wire Quotes, led by these top contributors: