Best Elusive Lines
191 Elusive quotes by 175 unique authors
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The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is…
— Philip K. Dick
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She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl.…
— Jerry Spinelli
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But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with…
— Georges Bataille
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The kiss was innocent--innocent enough--but it was also full of something not unlike what Virginia wants from London, from life; it was full of a…
— Michael Cunningham
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Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are…
— Gloria Naylor
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Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.
— Janet Evanovich
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I am crying over the elusive nature of love.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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...that swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how…
— Steven Erikson
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Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems…
— John Dewey
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And nevertheless I have loved certain of my masters, and those strangely intimate though elusive relations existing between student and teacher, and the Sirens singing…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity." The world can't give that serenity. The…
— Anne Lamott
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No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes in the back…
— Jerry Spinelli
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When you were the son of evil, there was little you couldn't do, own, or kill, and yet her mortal self was an elusive trophy…
— J R Ward
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Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence…
— Laura Moriarty
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It doesn’t matter how many years go by, how much therapy I embark on, how much I try to achieve that elusive thing known as…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share…
— Joseph Conrad
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I must start at the beginning, if I can find it. Beginnings are elusive things. Just when you think you have hold of one, you…
— Hillary Jordan
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Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Most dreams die a slow death. They're conceived in a moment of passion, with the prospect of endless possibility, but often languish and are not…
— Dean Karnazes
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Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that…
— Mark Nepo
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I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve…
— Isabel Allende
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