Closed Quotes

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. — Gerry Spence
I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed… — Steve Martin
You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes… — Steven Wright
Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits… — Toni Morrison
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed. — John Lennon
And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there… — Anne Lamott
It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a… — Clara Barton
People should fall in love with their eyes closed. — Andy Warhol
Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And… — Mitch Albom
Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. — Maria von Trapp
I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was cool and smooth… — Katherine Hannigan
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees,… — Victor Hugo
That was in Crescent City, California, up near the Oregon border. I left soon after. But today I was thinking of that place, of Crescent… — Raymond Carver
((Doc is getting ready to do a Pap-smear on Reece)) "Looks healthy," Doc commented. "Good, because it hasn't been getting any exercise in quite a… — Nora Roberts
Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and… — Sue Monk Kidd
Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed,… — Thomas de Quincey
Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams. — Hiromu Arakawa
Harry closed his eyes. He never wanted to open them again. His heart sent this message to his molecules: "For reasons obvious to all of… — Kurt Vonnegut
She might, in fact, go crazy, as has happened to a lot of people who break rules. Not the people who play at rebellion but… — E. Lockhart
He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture.… — William Goldman
In the half darkness I winked to my other self, my mad dictator, and congratulated him on his droll victory. I closed my eyes and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes… — Lois McMaster Bujold
He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened his mouth to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Bryon tilted his head to a very odd angle, half-closed his eyes and composed his features to suggest that he was about to expire from… — Susanna Clarke

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