Kept Quotes

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Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive. — Emile M. Cioran
I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of… — Hunter S. Thompson
I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God. — Johann Sebastian Bach
Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept… — Franz Kafka
Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept… — Edith Wharton
[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him. — Louisa May Alcott
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God… — Cormac McCarthy
Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing… — William Stafford
You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were… — Ernest Hemingway
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. — Robert Louis Stevenson
So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in… — John Muir
...but with the hours I sometimes kept at the coffeehouse I had to have learned to take naps during the day or die, and I… — Robin McKinley
For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety. — Marcel Proust
He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life. — Milan Kundera
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? — Robert Browning
Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing… — Paul Auster
I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and Baldwin’s… — Barack Obama
I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all humans were related,… — Jeannette Walls
Still, no one finally knows what a poet is supposed either to be or to do. Especially in this country, one takes on the job—because… — Robert Creeley
Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed… — Elizabeth Gaskell
He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. "She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the… — Jodi Picoult
Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture.… — George Orwell
The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective… — Victor Hugo
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by… — J D Salinger

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