Certain Quotes

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When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager to please (remember… — Jessica Valenti
Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusing.… — Isaac Asimov
I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will… — Marilynne Robinson
Tell me, was I the sort of person who took your elbow when cars passed on the street, touched your cheek while you talked, combed… — Nicole Krauss
God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word will be fulfilled. — Charles Spurgeon
People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions.… — Amin Maalouf
It is difficult to hate an idea. That requires a certain intellectual discipline and a slightly obsessive, sick mind. There arenâ€™t too many of those.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive… — Primo Levi
Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside. — Elie Wiesel
The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become. — Elie Wiesel
I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down… — Cecelia Ahern
He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It… — John Steinbeck
Now I can do the bolts," she slurred. "I've been trying to focus enough magic all week." The magic shifted and swirled, finally etching a… — Eoin Colfer
It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange… — Jeanette Winterson
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments. — Jean Genet
People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart. — Margaret Atwood
He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women within a certain age group and figure envelope… — Thomas Pynchon

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