Main Quotes
2069 Main quotes by 1600 unique authors
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Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago.…
— Wilhelm Reich
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At this point, a spaceship could land on Main Street and Elvis could saunter out singing "Love Me Tender," and I wouldn't be surprised
— Michele Bardsley
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In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing.…
— Saul Bellow
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I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the…
— Oscar Wilde
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(As she entered the main room, Syn turned around in his chair and almost fell out of it as he scanned her body. He cleared…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may…
— Neil Gaiman
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His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.
— Angela Carter
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I couldn‘t make sense of the mess in my head. Diego was dead, and that was the main thing, the devastating thing. Other than that,…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it…
— Francis Chan
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty…
— Erica Jong
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My feeling is, if a dog is that hard up to break free, let it go. It's like a boyfriend who wants to break up.…
— Chelsea Handler
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When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And…
— William Shakespeare
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The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can…
— Benjamin Hoff
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The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part…
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every…
— John Pilger
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It was long after midnight and the stars looked damp and chilly; the air was full of the busy silence of the night, which is…
— Terry Pratchett
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Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there…
— Jimmy Buffett
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But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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For when all else is done, only words remain. Words endure.
— Kate Mosse
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Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza. "Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end…
— Iain Banks
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Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of…
— J I Packer
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Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.
— Vera Nazarian
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Hey." Her grin grew as she glanced from me to Nash, then back. "You're blocking the fridge." "There's a cooler in the other room." Nash…
— Rachel Vincent
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