Corners Quotes
364 quotes by 316 authors
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No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes…
— Edwidge Danticat
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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.
— Oscar Wilde
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We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.
— Salman Rushdie
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No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.
— Mitch Albom
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Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
— Mitch Albom
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The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.
— Jose Saramago
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We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take off what is…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.
— Mark Strand
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Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can’t see…So the…
— Andy Warhol
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There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside
— Paul Bowles
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Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension…
— Tom Stoppard
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Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out…
— Sarah Dessen
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it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams
— Virginia Woolf
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By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or…
— Virginia Woolf
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I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with…
— Tom Robbins
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That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab humdrum corners of…
— Paul Auster
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she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to…
— Paulo Coelho
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A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of…
— Barack Obama
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at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits…
— Margaret Atwood
Who Wrote These Corners Quotes
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