Shared Quotes
1185 quotes by 939 authors
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I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas…
— Emily Dickinson
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Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say while some fields will blossom and others…
— Kent Nerburn
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She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything that otherwise would…
— Sándor Márai
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To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of…
— Barack Obama
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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
— Barack Obama
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In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I believe in the transformative power of cinema. It is only through this shared dream-experience that we can transcend the oppressive minutiae of daily existence…
— Daniel Clowes
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Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of…
— Shel Silverstein
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You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere…
— Jack Kerouac
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We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island
— Neil Gaiman
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In the dark I rest, unready for the light which dawns day after day, eager to be shared. Black silk, shelter me. I need more…
— Denise Levertov
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The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology…
— Michael Pollan
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Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent…
— Terry Pratchett
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What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is…
— Margaret Atwood
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But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was…
— Arundhati Roy
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Thousands of years ago, man lived in harmony with the rest of the natural world. Through what we would today call Telepathy, he communicated with…
— Benjamin Hoff
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Lucas had told me only one lie, ever; he kept the secret of black Cross because it wasn’t his secret to tell. In every other…
— Claudia Gray
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It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that…
— John Irving
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Harry: This book belongs to Harry Potter. Ron: Shared by Ron Weasley, because his fell apart. Hermione: Why don't you buy a new one then?…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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