Know Why Quotes

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I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust.… — Bret Easton Ellis
I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and… — William Faulkner
In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies… — Jeanette Winterson
I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth. — Tim O'Brien
I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why… — Anton Chekhov
So softly Lizzy has to lean over to hear me, I say, 'I can't face the world until I know why I'm here.' You're kidding… — Wendy Mass
A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things… — Jonathan Safran Foer
On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I find a magazine… — James Frey
There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive… — Kate Chopin
Gwen?" "Yes." "You know why we have to be together, don't you?" "..." "I'm your selkie. — Terri Farley
Personally, I like to think my brother is having a college experience like they do in the movies. I don't mean the big fraternity party… — Stephen Chbosky
More to the point, I know why soldiers, home from war, seldom tell their families about their exploits in more than general terms. We who… — Dean Koontz
Heart may still be the fire in hearth but I'm suddenly too cold to continue, and besides, there's no hearth here anyway and it's the… — Mark Z. Danielewski
I know why people die of hopelessness. It comes on like a thick blanket, covering your thoughts, your confidence, creeping into your mind and filling… — Joan Lowery Nixon
Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away. — Cormac McCarthy
The last time I'd seen the Minotaur, he'd been wearing nothing but his tighty whities. I don't know why. Maybe he'd been shaken out of… — Rick Riordan
He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so… — Robert Louis Stevenson
There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language. — Patricia A. McKillip
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would… — Paul Laurence Dunbar
And quit baring your fangs at me. It's making me nervous." "Good," Simon said. "if you want to know why, it's because you smell like… — Cassandra Clare

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