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The Way It Is Thereâ€™s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesnâ€™t change. People wonder about what you are… — William Stafford
What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human… — John Gardner
[A God-thing is] when something happens in your life, and you look at it and can't explain how or why it happened, but you know… — Robin Jones Gunn
Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master and blushed." That… — Ravi Zacharias
How did you explain a thing it had not occurred to you to question? A thing you just knew, clear through to your soul? — Cameron Dokey
I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was something I lived for. I never could explain why.… — Jonathan Safran Foer
In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I… — Elizabeth Kostova
I quizzed him a lot on this point and i suspect the truth was that it was like a lot of things at that age:… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Time will explain. — Jane Austen
Personally, I'm a lazy kind of guy, and leaving the door open on the mystical saves me work. I don't have to stress my brain… — Janet Evanovich
We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody… — David Foster Wallace
I am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply. The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and… — Jim Morrison
I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do… — Dorothy Allison
Nah, you always look good. As for me â€¦ well, it's hard to explain. The auras are getting to me. There's so much sorrow around… — Richelle Mead
Sometimes at night I worry about TAMMY. I worry that she might get tired of it all. Tired of running at sixty-six terahertz, tired of… — Charles Yu
How do I explain a life that has lasted for billions of years? It is almost as if I must start with an apology for… — Christopher Pike
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a… — Albert Einstein
Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold onto something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind… — Henry Rollins
Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it… — Nicholas Sparks
Oh, God, Shannon. You're blowing my mind." Clint's morning voice was rich with passion. I wanted to correct him and explain that it wasn't his… — P. C. Cast

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