Mere Quotes

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No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I… — Anne Bronte
What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a… — Robert Stone
When it comes to such open-heart reflection, I'm a firm believer in the observer effect, which states that anything you try to observe is automatically… — Neal Shusterman
Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber? Weren't we made of sterner stuff? — Karen Marie Moning
I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We are not perfect. What god is Examine yours. According to your mythos he was so disappointed with his initial efforts creating your race that… — Karen Marie Moning
Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are I've assigned myself a new obligation.… — Muriel Barbery
They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp and tumble to… — Tim O'Brien
Aw, no. Youâ€™re taking us to that vegetarian place, arenâ€™t you? Itâ€™s a coffee place. You canâ€™t just automatically classify anything that isnâ€™t a steak… — Kevin Hearne
A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory. — China Mieville
If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more… — Sherwood Smith
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. — C.S. Lewis
Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence. We never threaten… — Richard Dawkins
For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him. — Julie Garwood
No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have… — H.G. Wells
She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an… — Jane Austen
To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness,… — Eric Hoffer
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all. — Edgar Allan Poe
I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able… — Jasper Fforde
In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have some sort of… — John Calvin

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