Occurred Quotes
565 Occurred quotes by 476 unique authors
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What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
— Roland Barthes
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She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project, get her definition.…
— Sarah Dessen
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Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had,…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of…
— Barbara Pym
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I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any…
— Mordecai Richler
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It had never occurred to me before but everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as…
— Colum McCann
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Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had…
— Marilynne Robinson
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...it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while others might initially enter in…
— Susan Minot
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Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?"…
— Joseph Heller
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Has it ever occurred to you," he said abruptly, "that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking…
— Stephen King
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It's funny, because even though they're rattling on about the Games, it's all about where they were or what they were doing or how they…
— Suzanne Collins
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when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed…
— Lewis Carroll
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I often went to Catholic mass or Eucharist at the Episcopal church, nourished by the symbol and power of this profound feeding ritual. It never…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take…
— Lauren Oliver
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I stared at the river far below. "Why did you park us on the mountain? Why not closer?" Bast shrugged, as if this hadn't occurred…
— Rick Riordan
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
— John Berger
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It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.
— Richelle Mead
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Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred over the course…
— Laura Dave
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In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind…
— Samuel R. Delany
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