Perfectly Quotes

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There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful - a suffering continual… — Brian Kolodiejchuk
I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening as they rose… — Anne Rice
A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented… — Gertrude Stein
One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by… — Neil Gaiman
She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within… — James M. Barrie
In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty… — Richard P. Feynman
The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book… — Saint Augustine
I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on… — Dorothy Parker
She was happy, and perfectly in line with the tradition of those women they used to call "ruined," "fallen," feckless, bitches in heat, ravished dolls,… — Jean Genet
Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way. — Daniel Quinn
The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version… — Stephen Fry
Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her… — Jane Austen
The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books… — Oscar Wilde
The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and then it swings… — Naomi Novik
People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's… — Thomas Hardy
There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question… — ZoÃ« Heller
Figure our what it is you don't do very well, and then don't do it. I'm not beating myself up about doing everything perfectly. The… — Douglas Coupland
When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story. — Charles Baxter
Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the… — Annie Dillard
There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like… — Kevin Brockmeier
You need not laugh; 'tis perfectly true. — Patrice Kindl
I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up — Frank O'Hara
That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. — Kurt Vonnegut
Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a… — Jorge Luis Borges

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