Particularly Quotes

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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have. — Soren Kierkegaard
The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the… — Winston Churchill
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics… — Kurt Vonnegut
It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rather, very, little, pretty -- these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant use of the… — William Strunk, Jr.
I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but… — Jorge Luis Borges
The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is responsible for lumbago as well as for hemorrhoidal disturbances. Elsewhere,… — Wilhelm Reich
About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day,… — Boris Pasternak
Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East… — Zadie Smith
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. — Woody Allen
I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that.… — Harper Lee
It took him forever to get to downtown Vancouver although Tony had to admit that saving the world by public transportation was a particularly Canadian… — Tanya Huff
Salvador Dalí seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs,… — Luis Bunuel
Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or… — Francoise Sagan
Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that… — Jane Austen
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
To Garan's credit, the treatment of Dellian prisoners did change after that. One particularly laconic man, after a session in which Fire learned positively nothing,… — Kristin Cashore
In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and… — Hilari Bell
Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's… — C.S. Lewis
We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a… — Elie Wiesel
Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, when you're near someone, when… — Jim Butcher
All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s… — Conan O'Brien
If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me,… — David Nicholls
I suspect that I am the result of particularly weak conception on the part of my father. His sperm was probably emitted in a rather… — John Kennedy Toole
I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it. — Eduardo Galeano

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