Plain Quotes

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...but with the hours I sometimes kept at the coffeehouse I had to have learned to take naps during the day or die, and I… — Robin McKinley
The tree that never had to fight for sun and sky and air and light but stood out in the open plain and always got… — Douglas Malloch
It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the… — Carolyn Parkhurst
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of… — Atul Gawande
A friend cannot be owned That is plain to see Friendships must be shared, Just like our friend, Ruby — Stephen Cosgrove
What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight. — Charles Baxter
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides… — George Carlin
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God… — Robert Louis Stevenson
She saw herself riding in the passenger seat, Sam behind the wheel. Like two of those little peg people in a toy car. Husband peg,… — Anne Tyler
Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding… — Flann O'Brien
A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You â€” you strange â€” you almost unearthly thing! â€” I love as my own flesh. You â€” poor and obscure, and small and plain… — Charlotte Bronte
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds… — John Ruskin
I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. Itâ€™s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the… — Anne Tyler
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields… — Isak Dinesen
Books speak plain when counselors blanch. — Francis Bacon
They all trying to say something with music that you can't say with plain talk. There ain't really no words for love or pain. And… — Gloria Naylor
I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my… — M.F.K. Fisher
What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to… — William Styron

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