Dramatic Quotes

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The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, "You have no need for sight. Listen. — Ann Patchett
You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I… — Leonora Carrington
I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later I told her that I'd actually gotten a… — Denis Johnson
When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic. — Flannery O'Connor
At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not being a disappointment. He felt himself heading into… — Kate DiCamillo
When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No fanfare, no metaphor,… — Suzanne Weyn
But in some ways, the most significant choices one makes in life are done for reasons that are not all that dramatic, not earth-shaking at… — Marya Hornbacher
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a… — Jeanette Winterson
I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart--do this feeling that over my shoulder… — Frederick Exley
When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has… — Milan Kundera
It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for… — Arthur Conan Doyle
How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his… — Flannery O'Connor
Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at… — Erma Bombeck
You may be sure that if you succeed in bringing your audience into the presence of something that affects them, they will not care by… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Your uncle," Poseidon sighed, "has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done well as the god of theater. — Rick Riordan

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