Plain Quotes

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There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding… — Robin Sloan
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people — Edgar Degas
Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will… — Ellen Bass
There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding… — Robin Sloan
All the same, I should like it all plain and clear," said he obstinately, putting on his business manner (usually reserved for people who tried… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things. — J.R.R. Tolkien
I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with… — Isak Dinesen
The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and… — George Orwell
She was plain and far from skinny or petite. As for parties...she'd rather be alone in a corner somewhere reading. She hated being nice to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site. — Robin Sloan
I watched for her hair to curl, the telltale Caster breeze. It didn't move. This wasn't Caster magic she was working. It was another kind… — Kami Garcia
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. My gift, or fatal flaw, is for nostalgia. I have sometimes been accused… — Tana French
Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight. — Stephenie Meyer
How could you have guessed?â€ Miserable though Will was, he felt free, as if a heavy burden had been displaced from him. â€œI did all… — Cassandra Clare
People who entered the Courtyard without an invitation were just plain crazy! Wolves were big and scary and so fluffy, how could anyone resist hugging… — Anne Bishop
You've never had a hamburger before?" asks Christine, her eyes wide. "No," I say. "Is that what it's called?" "Stiffs eat plain food," Four says,… — Veronica Roth
He'd been waiting for a love fraught with passion and drama; it hadn't even occurred to him that true love might be something that was… — Julia Quinn
It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future. — Maria V. Snyder
Women need to remember that if nature has made them plain, grace can make them beautiful, and if nature has made them beautiful, good deeds… — Joshua Harris
Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It was… — Charles Bukowski

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