Case Quotes

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In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up… — Augusten Burroughs
I canâ€™t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many… — Jorge Luis Borges
Weâ€™re too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything… — Clive Barker
One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is… — Victor Hugo
The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can't imagine living without having loved a person.… — Grace Paley
Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator. — Daniel Handler
Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that… — Thomas Hardy
Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By… — Haruki Murakami
But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if theyâ€™re brilliant and creative to begin withâ€”which, unfortunately, is rarely the caseâ€”tend to leave infinitely… — J D Salinger
Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality. — Walter Kaufmann
Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be… — Catherine Marshall
Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and… — Tom Robbins
Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case, she tells her… — Terry Pratchett
People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size… — Miranda July
What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a… — William Maxwell
She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very… — Jane Austen
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only… — George Orwell
It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with… — George Orwell
Life was what happened when all the what-ifâ€™s didnâ€™t, when what you dreamed or hoped or â€“ in this case â€“ feared might come to… — Jodi Picoult

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