Inhabiting Quotes

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
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
Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes. — Martin Heidegger
What interests me when Iâ€™m writing is being able to crawl into a characterâ€™s head and speak from his or her mouth. Itâ€™s not pulling… — Nathan Englander
Strangeâ€”we are always inhabiting more than one realm of existenceâ€”but they all fit in if the art is right. — Lorine Niedecker
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Iâ€™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
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
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
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
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world. — Brian Eno
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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