Perfectly Quotes

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most people are perfectly afraid of silence — E E Cummings
As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point… — Alessandro Baricco
Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away. — Jack Kerouac
The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and… — Christopher Moore
Responsibility and Trust -- these two are like Yin and Yang, together perfectly complete, and each one requiring the presence of the other. The next… — Vera Nazarian
I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a… — Khaled Hosseini
Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds… — Rachel Naomi Remen
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are… — Oscar Wilde
He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could… — James Joyce
He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much… — Dodie Smith
When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for. — Vladimir Nabokov
Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure. — Leo Tolstoy
I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the… — Sylvia Plath
His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse… — Betty MacDonald
I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I… — Julio Cortazar
Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to… — Oscar Wilde
I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy… — Mary Pipher
There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses. — Dorothy Parker
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with… — H.G. Wells
Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together. — Robert A. Heinlein
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is… — Swami Vivekananda
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part… — George Eliot
New lesson, class. Most monsters will vaporize when sliced with a celestial bronze sword. This change is perfectly normal, and will happen to you right… — Rick Riordan

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