Bogs Quotes
32 quotes by 29 authors
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He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is…
— Susanna Clarke
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What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.
— Barry Hannah
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Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by…
— A. Lee Martinez
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And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to…
— Mariama Bâ
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I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was…
— Anthony Burgess
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She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through…
— Nora Roberts
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When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all…
— Susanna Clarke
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Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic Gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies, pan-psychic hallucinations—this is the stuff, the phantasms…
— Jack London
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It's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top…
— Tove Jansson
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High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its nearness ... A…
— Aldo Leopold
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I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog…
— Lord Dunsany
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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when…
— Miles Franklin
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