Finding Quotes
2710 quotes by 1954 authors
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I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I,…
— Sarah Dessen
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for…
— Alan Bennett
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Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs…
— Junot Diaz
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Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story…
— Truman Capote
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The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of…
— Randy Alcorn
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The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly…
— Adam Smith
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Our conversations are never easy, but as I-we-get older, we are finding that our conversations must bespoken. A need burns inside us to share with…
— Douglas Coupland
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He stared past her to the place at the other end of the dining table where Regina would sit as his wife. If she were…
— Sabrina Jeffries
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There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be…
— Marguerite Duras
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Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re…
— Carl Sagan
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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.
— Rollo May
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Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.
— Terry Goodkind
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Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some…
— Thomas Hardy
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The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the…
— Mark Twain
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What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
— Jeanette Winterson
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Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.
— Steven Wright
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This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The band has decided to give him and his wife a much needed break from the road to start a life and have a proper…
— Gerard Way
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