Best Outside World Lines
197 Outside World quotes by 182 unique authors
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Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part…
— Eudora Welty
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The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of…
— Julian Baggini
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Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don’t make ripples all around you, don’t try to be…
— Etty Hillesum
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But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.
— Alberto Manguel
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One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad…
— Carl Sagan
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There is still the outside world to contend with. A world of backfiring cars, and their human equivalents.
— David Sedaris
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I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this…
— Mark Haddon
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I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a…
— Markus Zusak
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And there was that letter from the Bramleys—that really made me feel good. You don’t find people like the Bramleys now; radio, television and the…
— James Herriot
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And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed…
— Patrick Süskind
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After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I…
— John Connolly
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There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant…
— Alex Garland
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the…
— Gaston Bachelard
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That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers…
— Orson Scott Card
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I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The outside world holds no interest for me without you." -Edward
— Stephenie Meyer
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Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you…
— Italo Calvino
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Snowflakes swirl down gently in the deep blue haze beyond the window. The outside world is a dream. Inside, the fireplace is brightly lit, and…
— Vera Nazarian
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It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the…
— James Patterson
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The oyster was an animal worthy of New Orleans, as mysterious and private and beautiful as the city itself. If one could accept that oysters…
— Tom Robbins
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One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds itself…
— Louis Althusser
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There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid…
— Margaret Mahy
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