Inhabiting Quotes
58 quotes by 50 authors
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but…
— Kate Atkinson
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Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.
— Martin Heidegger
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What interests me when I’m writing is being able to crawl into a character’s head and speak from his or her mouth. It’s not pulling…
— Nathan Englander
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Strange—we are always inhabiting more than one realm of existence—but they all fit in if the art is right.
— Lorine Niedecker
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Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now…
— J. William Fulbright
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Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into…
— Rachel Kushner
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While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can untie in a common objective and…
— Franklin Pierce
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The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri. . . are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed…
— George Catlin
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We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of…
— Carolyn Porco
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It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are…
— Charles Lyell
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From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the…
— James Monroe
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The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland; while the Picts…
— W. C. Sellar
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The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided…
— Laozi
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I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other…
— Angela Davis
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Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile .…
— James Turrell
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A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around…
— Sylvia Browne
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Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.
— Evelyn Waugh
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
— Brian Eno
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RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were…
— Ambrose Bierce
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