Bare Quotes
613 quotes by 487 authors
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Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently…
— Mark Helprin
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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life;
— Mark Twain
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April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes…
— Elizabeth Smart
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One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink…
— Robert Fulghum
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Their throats were bare for God.
— Jeanette Winterson
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look…
— E. M. Forster
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My Heart I'm not going to cry all the time nor shall I laugh all the time, I don't prefer one "strain" to another. I'd…
— Frank O'Hara
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You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were…
— Ernest Hemingway
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There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have…
— Monique Wittig
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As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society…
— Stephen King
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Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture.…
— George Orwell
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I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to…
— Charles de Lint
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I can't bare you when you're not amusing.
— Evelyn Waugh
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A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made…
— Robin Hobb
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Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart…
— Alexander Pushkin
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Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in…
— Richard Wright
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Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets…
— Alain de Botton
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People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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Malcolm: A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who…
— Michael Crichton
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