Particularly Quotes
1950 quotes by 1576 authors
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Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence…
— Leo Tolstoy
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the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs…
— David Foster Wallace
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Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other Âpeople. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic –…
— P.D. James
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I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.
— Haruki Murakami
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Miss Tarabotti was not certain if he was objecting to the kick or the scream, so she issued both again— with interest. He seemed to…
— Gail Carriger
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The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion…
— Jack Weatherford
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Neither mine nor other people's prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have fantasies of going to Iceland, never to return. As…
— Edward Gorey
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How can you read and talk at the same time?†I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly…
— John Green
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People do lie to themselves, and they get away with it because every action affirms and reaffirms their perception. That's the power of the human…
— Vicki Pettersson
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I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than…
— Nick Cave
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We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin…
— A. S. Byatt
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The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind -- a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a…
— Woody Allen
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I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I…
— Jim Henson
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It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.
— Tasha Alexander
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The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs,…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.
— John Green
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As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for…
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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42. Most people will spend their lives doing jobs that they don't particularly enjoy, and will eventually save up enough money to stop doing those…
— John Connolly
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Are we going to discuss whatever it is you are here to discuss instead of dancing around it?†he asks. “I was never a particularly…
— Erin Morgenstern
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Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.
— Lev Grossman
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