Finding Quotes
2710 quotes by 2063 authors
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Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded…
— Neil Gaiman
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This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men…
— Michael Morpurgo
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Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. He would have made the…
— S E Hinton
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And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Can you love someone you don't trust?" "Absolutely," he said. "I have a sister I wouldn't lend two copper lengths if I wanted them back.…
— Daniel Abraham
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Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without…
— Stanislaw Lem
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My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.
— Tracy Letts
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The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.
— Paulo Coelho
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One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding…
— Terry Pratchett
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I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.
— Banana Yoshimoto
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It seems almost oxymoronic to believe that this new idealism has led to a new pessimism about marriage, but that is exactly what has happened.…
— Timothy Keller
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...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not…
— Alistair Maclean
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I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are…
— Jeanette Winterson
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We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it…
— Stephen King
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
— Alain de Botton
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We are sculptors finding ourselves in the evolution of choosing, not in the results of choice.
— Sheena Iyengar
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Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.
— Anne Tyler
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The most insane things can become normal if you have them around you long enough. A mind can’t seem to hold anything too crazy for…
— Deb Caletti
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The world is bigger than you know, and scarier than you might imagine. The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself, and the…
— Derek Landy
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