Peculiarly Quotes
71 Peculiarly quotes by 59 unique authors
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This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a…
— Joan Didion
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There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.
— W G Sebald
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There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.
— Cassandra Clare
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But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote…
— David Foster Wallace
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There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out. Of course, the aftermath was less pleasant. Once you'd…
— Cassandra Clare
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The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in…
— Joan Didion
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There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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It is true that I had wanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting having been born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to…
— Ian Mcewan
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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
— Chinua Achebe
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Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious…
— Abraham Kuyper
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The highest service that men may attain to on earth is to preach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore,…
— John Wycliffe
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in…
— Ira Glass
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The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.
— Goldwin Smith
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The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in…
— Joan Didion
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There is something remarkably and peculiarly English about the passion for sitting on damp seats watching open-air drama only the English have mastered the art…
— Sheridan Morley
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October. This is the one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March,…
— Mark Twain
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My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissensions with…
— George Washington
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It is peculiarly the business of a monitor to keep his own reputation untainted, lest those who can once charge him with partiality, should indulge…
— Samuel Johnson
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