Hardly Ever Quotes
174 Hardly Ever quotes by 157 unique authors
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In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions.…
— Haruki Murakami
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I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least…
— J D Salinger
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Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.
— Michel de Montaigne
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I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my…
— Aleister Crowley
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Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen,…
— Gennifer Choldenko
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Dad, you played rounders with me, even though you hated it and wished I'd take up cricket. You learned how to keep a stamp collecion…
— Jenny Downham
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Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart…
— John Steinbeck
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That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers…
— Renata Adler
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Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked…
— Freya Stark
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Kiran says (the shelf) is full of stories. If it is, then I like fairy stories. Fairy stories are fair. In them wishes are granted,…
— Hilary McKay
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Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and…
— Stephen King
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Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to…
— Samuel Beckett
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She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring…
— T.H. White
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I can't be any more addicted to it than I already am,"Jamie said slowly, as though he'd rehearsed this, and then waiting for a cue…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.
— Stephen King
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The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.
— Rick Riordan
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The kissed surprised him because it had been so long since he'd kissed anyone but Elspeth. It surprised Valentina because she had hardly ever kissed…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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She'll sting you one day, Oh, ever so gently, so you hardly ever feel it. 'til you fall dead.
— Jacob Grimm
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He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’s Hollow that, but…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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It’s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Do you know what happens when you always look before you leap?" She reached out and touched his hand before hurrying toward the door. "You…
— Nora Roberts
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We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense…
— Antonio Damasio
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I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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