Creature Quotes

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Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did… — Virginia Woolf
God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls… — Jonathan Edwards
He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in… — Oscar Wilde
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. — William Faulkner
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
The thread has snapped. No sound even to mark the breaking let alone the fall. That long anticipated disintegration, when the darkest angel of all,… — Mark Z. Danielewski
There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outside, it's inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry… — Jeanne DuPrau
What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!' Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I… — W. Somerset Maugham
At Christmas A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's… — Edgar Guest
Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters. — Robin McKinley
Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their… — Henry Miller
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings,… — Barbara Kingsolver
We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm. — Jeffrey Eugenides
Henry loves my hair almost as though it is a creature unto itself, as though it has a soul to call its own, as though… — Audrey Niffenegger
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit… — Anthony Burgess
Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth. — Jeanette Winterson
Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This… — Gao Xingjian
Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the… — Julio Cortazar
Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can't hurt you. Love, and trust, and friendship, and all the… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

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