Plain Quotes

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I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try… — Thomas Huxley
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem… — Langston Hughes
to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your… — Ellen Bass
What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the… — Jack Kerouac
Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities. — Mark Twain
It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didnâ€™t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide… — Hunter S. Thompson
The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the… — Kate Chopin
Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach: The Ogre cannot master speech. About a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the… — Wallace Stevens
Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that… — Virginia Woolf
It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know… — Henry Miller
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. .… — J.R.R. Tolkien
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. — Lois McMaster Bujold
not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of… — Thomas Jefferson
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith. — William Shakespeare
Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit. — Victor Hugo
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school.… — Vladimir Nabokov

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