Rare Quotes

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I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and… — Janet Fitch
It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids. — Tracy Chevalier
Red hair is great. It's rare, and therefore superior. — Augusten Burroughs
He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin… — Ann Patchett
True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning. — Nicholas Sparks
She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward… — Steven Galloway
It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course,… — Arthur C. Clarke
it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom — Paul Auster
I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and… — Laurie R. King
One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is… — Simone Weil
A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these… — Jostein Gaarder
Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it. — Marcel Proust
…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as… — Lawrence Durrell
Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods… — Hal Borland
One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me.… — Nicholas Sparks
The reason I know what we are to each other is because we fight freely and almost constantly, about even the smallest thing. In fact,… — Augusten Burroughs
Theresa strode over to us in a swish of cloth. "Enough of this, animator. He can't do it, so he pays the price. Either leave… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Star people are rare. — Jerry Spinelli
Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured… — Joanne Harris
The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare. — Wilkie Collins
Amy adored both the new look and the new person it allowed her to be. Following the photo shoot, she wore her bruises to the… — David Sedaris
She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to… — Curtis Sittenfeld
I have stitched life into me like a rare organ — Sylvia Plath
It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in… — Susanna Clarke

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