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Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine… — Denis Johnson
Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve… — Thomas Merton
Whenever I meet people for the first time, I get them to talk for ten minutes. Then I size them up from the exact opposite… — Haruki Murakami
To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up longer. He places… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
...But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced themselves… — Neal Stephenson
The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their… — Woody Guthrie
Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most… — S I Hayakawa
There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what… — Simone de Beauvoir
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you… — Tennessee Williams
In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't… — Jerry Spinelli
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world. — Gary Zukav
To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place… — Italo Calvino
... perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go… — Jostein Gaarder
The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags… — Orson F. Whitney
Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders. — Megan Whalen Turner
I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which… — Germaine Greer
Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is… — Umberto Eco
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing… — George Orwell
When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it's the uttering of something, not the thinking of it, that legitimizes it.… — Peter Cameron
There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in… — Sylvia Plath
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth… — H. L. Mencken
Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true. — Ram Dass
Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt… — Milan Kundera

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