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488 Sheer quotes by 420 unique authors

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers… — Ira Glass
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer… — Oscar Wilde
She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal… — Rosamunde Pilcher
The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion… — Michael Pollan
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins. — Tom Robbins
Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work… — Neil Gaiman
Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy. — Jack Kerouac
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility.… — Terry Eagleton
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. — James Thurber
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A… — Nelson Algren
It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all… — Martin Amis
No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth. — Anthony Burgess
Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is… — Thrity Umrigar
The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like… — Grace Metalious
Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things? — Beverley Nichols
-the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at… — David Foster Wallace
It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you. — Toni Morrison
Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at… — Ayn Rand
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits. — Fay Weldon
Really, Rachel looked like a sun, bright and exuding energy, holding us two moons in a parallel orbit by the sheer force of her will. — Maggie Stiefvater
Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science,… — Kay Redfield Jamison

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