Merely Quotes

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MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am merely offering a… — Robert Anton Wilson
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. — Oscar Wilde
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any… — Oscar Wilde
This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them -- on the… — Jonathan Safran Foer
We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later… — John Knowles
Life is not made of atoms,it is merely built out of them. What life is actually 'made of' is cycles of cause and effect, loops… — Steve Grand
Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can… — Nick Hornby
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing… — Bill Hicks
Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the… — Gaston Bachelard
We walked for some time, and grew to know each other, as best as we'd allow. These are some of the high points. They lack… — Harlan Ellison
We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores… — Annie Dillard
She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric. — Michael Cunningham
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. — Unknown Author
there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes… — Mark Twain
It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didnâ€™t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide… — Hunter S. Thompson
When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that all is a… — Nikos Kazantzakis
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be… — Robert A. Heinlein
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely… — William Faulkner

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