Between Two Quotes
589 quotes by 488 authors
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We move between two darknesses.
— E. M. Forster
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Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you…
— Victor Hugo
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This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within…
— Primo Levi
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Norah looked at her son’s tiny face, surprised, as always, by his name. he had not grown into it yet, he still wore it like…
— Kim Edwards
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His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between…
— Hermann Hesse
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The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or…
— Gregory David Roberts
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There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books. They move, sometimes,…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true…
— J R Ward
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For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object…
— Roland Barthes
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Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no…
— Roland Barthes
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Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.
— Salman Rushdie
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I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is…
— Jeanette Winterson
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I didn't think I belonged here in her world, a boy stuck between two lives, dragging the dangers of the wolves with me, but when…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come…
— Charlie Brooker
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And that's where our conversation went from there, than God, both of us laughing our butts off at the thought of a hoops game between…
— Catherine Gilbert Murdock
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But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy, human bodies.
— Rob Sheffield
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He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but it was a…
— E. M. Forster
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There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the…
— Kathryn Stockett
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I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois…
— Thomas Mann
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