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263 I Sat quotes by 217 unique authors
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For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy,…
— Doris Lessing
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because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass…
— Sylvia Plath
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We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I…
— Charles Dickens
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I sat on the bench outside of class today and talked to Jon. I read to him from my journal, it was the part about…
— Sabrina Ward Harrison
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I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as…
— Anais Nin
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I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play…
— Charles Bukowski
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When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin,…
— Michael Chabon
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I sat and thought for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the…
— Miriam Toews
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When her hands reached out and poured the tea, it was as if she also poured something into me while I sat there sweating in…
— Markus Zusak
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Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point…
— Jodi Picoult
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As I sat in the hot, salty water, I thought, 'No wonder Mr. Bubble always gives me a urinary tract infection and hives.' Mr. Bubble…
— Augusten Burroughs
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the…
— Jodi Picoult
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I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it,…
— Alan Moore
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He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself…
— Patricia Briggs
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Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room…
— Haruki Murakami
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I sat down and tried to write a story. "Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out of them with…
— Stephen Chbosky
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From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalized identities - 'this is how you are when you are with your mum, and this…
— Russell Brand
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I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as incredible as…
— Jostein Gaarder
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Louis-Cesare’s anger suddenly filled the small room like water, and in a heartbeat his eyes went from silver tinged to as solid as two antique…
— Karen Chance
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I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Do you ever get the feeling that something awful might happen?' James asked me. . . I sat up. 'I'm the awful thing that happens.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my…
— W G Sebald
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