Corner Quotes
1346 quotes by 1091 authors
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I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more…
— C.S. Lewis
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Love was in the air, so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner.
— Daniel Handler
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No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of…
— Dean Koontz
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Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist,…
— John Green
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It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream…
— Daniel Handler
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I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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[A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room.…
— Isaac Asimov
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With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small…
— William Morris
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Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us;…
— Evelyn Waugh
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I flicked my eyes over to Steve again and saw him straighten. He would need a diversion just to start. “Explanations?†I bellowed. “Explanations? There’s…
— Stephen Fry
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Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.
— Rick Riordan
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Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for…
— Alberto Manguel
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When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with…
— Blaise Pascal
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We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way,…
— Willa Cather
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A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly eerie doll. Life-sized…
— Augusten Burroughs
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