Flattened Quotes
33 quotes by 33 authors
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If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an…
— Thomas Watson, Jr.
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What a shock that a guy who makes $2 million a week behaves exactly like I would with $2 million a week. As far as…
— Jim Norton
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In the course of the history of natural science, it always happens that profound or true thoughts or true facts were always either distorted or…
— Wilhelm Reich
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I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face…
— Chuck Close
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I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or…
— Thomas Friedman
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Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology,…
— John Zerzan
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Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that crept and crawled.…
— Tove Jansson
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Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
— Anne Tyler
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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
— Jack Dee
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It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a…
— Susanna Kaysen
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164…
— Abba Eban
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We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized…
— Charles Bukowski
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There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I…
— Philip K. Dick
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I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's…
— Margaret Atwood
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Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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The cat Horus shot out from under the table and headed for the door, his ears flattened and his tail straight out. There he encountered…
— Barbara Mertz
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Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained his curly hair…
— Rick Riordan
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She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You won't find Prim." At her name,…
— Suzanne Collins
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He took both of my hands, twisting to face me more fully on the flattened box beneath us, and again the colors in his irises…
— Rachel Vincent
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when you want something so desperately, you shake with the need for it. you tell yourself that you don't need more than one sip, because…
— Jodi Picoult
Who Wrote These Flattened Quotes
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