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Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel… — Barry Lopez
One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it. — Ingmar Bergman
Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than… — Kate Atkinson
I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found… — Arthur Golden
She touched his hand for the last time. "Oh, Karim, that we have already done. But always there was a problem between us. How can… — Monica Ali
I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see. — Lewis Carroll
What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell… — Margaret Drabble
There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time. — Susanna Clarke
If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be? — Wendell Berry
I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over. — Henry Miller
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain! — Adolf Hitler
It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things… — Donald Miller
Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!â€ said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been… — A A Milne
He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing. — Aidan Chambers
A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. -Sara — Lisa Kleypas
The only other scenario that could explain everything, up to and including your own bizarre apperance, is a convoluted conspiracy theory involving the Russian Mafia… — Eoin Colfer
I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children. — Andre Malraux
This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy; they need justice. — Isabel Allende
The trouble with us today, there are too many of us who put question marks instead of periods after what the Lord says. I want… — Harold B. Lee

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