Explained Quotes
581 quotes by 491 authors
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The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to…
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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She thought she kept seeing him because she wanted to see him," Macey explained. "Ooooh," Bex and Liz sighed together. "It's a by-product of very…
— Ally Carter
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So,†Marasi said, “you traded a dead man’s scarf for another dead man’s gun. But…the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same…
— Brandon Sanderson
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I laughed derisively. "For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious." "I was laughing." "Oh, were you? Well, I'm glad to see you…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the world around them.…
— Dan Abnett
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I don’t like the idea of “understanding†a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work…
— Federico Fellini
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I’m not comfortable in this stadium,†I explained, trying to look calm. “I know. And you hate Fang looking at those girls. But we’re still…
— James Patterson
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It's like this," he'd explained once to Connie. "If someone gave you a single rose, you'd be happy, right?" "Okay," he went on, "Now imagine…
— Barry Lyga
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I don't have a car." His eyes sliced into mine. "I walked here," I explained. "I'm on foot." "Angel," he said in a way that…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Can you at least tell us what these Sevens look like?" He said "could we pick one out in a crowd?" "A long time ago,…
— Alexandra Adornetto
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That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.
— Tamora Pierce
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It’s that I think Will is angry with me,†Tessa explained. “So whatever he told you—†He laughed. “Will is angry with everyone,†he said.…
— Cassandra Clare
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The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. "You're so hot," I said, my hand still on his leg. "I'm starting to think you…
— John Green
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Why does he speak of them that way?" The crow-man wanted to know. "They are humans, just like he is." "I don't think he sees…
— Tamora Pierce
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[talking about the Holocaust] 'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.…
— Alan Bennett
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He looked at their shabby clothes in puzzlement. “We were traveling anonymously for safety—†explained the magus. “But surely—†“—and then we were robbed on…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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One day you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Toast was a pointless invention from the Dark Ages. Toast was an implement of torture that caused all those subjected to it to regurgitate in…
— Margaret Atwood
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I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or…
— Kevin Powers
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