I Returned Quotes
58 quotes by 56 authors
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After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit'…
— Dave Brubeck
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In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been…
— Ma Jian
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I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from the…
— James Lee
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In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was…
— Anne Rice
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We kissed, then, and the ardour of her kiss stole my breath away. I returned her passion with all the fervor I possessed. A lifetime…
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the…
— Amy Tan
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Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand,…
— Virginia Woolf
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Sometimes I would make left turns all the way around a block, and when I returned to the original intersection, I would feel disappointed to…
— Miranda July
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It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their…
— Dean Koontz
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Mom and Dad were great, but being asked where I was going every time I left the house - or where I'd been every time…
— Lauren Weisberger
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I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I’ve a use for it.' 'And…
— Charlotte Bronte
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When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had…
— Jules Verne
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Some of my Arcanum bunkmates taught me a card game called dogs-breath. I returned the favor by giving an impromptu lesson in psychology, probability, and…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.
— Philip Yancey
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we're nothing.
— Roberto Bolano
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I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the…
— Robin Hobb
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I returned to the courtyard and saw that the sun had grown weaker. Beautiful and clear as it had been, the morning (as the day…
— Umberto Eco
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When I returned, everything was different. Everything was calm, and I felt very clean. Everything was in order. Everything was as it should be. I…
— Marya Hornbacher
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After I returned to New Jersey, I thought I was safe, because I did not think Kenny G could leave the bad place, which I…
— Matthew Quick
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Ashton grinne and raised her eyebrows. "I can't believe you're telling me a Vincent boy brought you to Grove, Alabama and not me." Shrugging, I…
— Abbi Glines
Who Wrote These I Returned Quotes
56 authors contributed a total of 58 I Returned Quotes, led by these top contributors: