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all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why… — Sue Monk Kidd
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city… — Robert Frost
And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not… — Ellen DeGeneres
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it. — Epictetus
Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing… — Bram Stoker
What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of… — Nadine Gordimer
It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding… — Albert Einstein
Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle. — Ray Bradbury
She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very… — Jane Austen
I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its… — Alan Moore
There will be occasions in each of our lives when we will be called upon to explain or to defend our beliefs. When the time… — Thomas S. Monson
In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been… — Jeanette Winterson
No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words — Brennan Manning
I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't… — Markus Zusak
He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love… — Hermann Hesse
How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every… — Jodi Picoult
Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some wayâ€”I… — J D Salinger
Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something so elevated that… — Sylvester Stallone

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