Shreds Quotes
77 Shreds quotes by 68 unique authors
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Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have…
— Alice Neel
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As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of…
— William John Locke
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Grover Cleveland declined to participate in character attacks on Blaine . When presented with papers which purported to be extremely damaging to Blaine, he grabbed…
— Grover Cleveland
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I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,Sniff them and think and sniff again and tryOnce more to think what it is I am remembering,Always in…
— Edward Thomas
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it…
— Hilary Mantel
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I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.
— John Mayer
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Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say,…
— Joan Rivers
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
— Wanda Sykes
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That wind. I see it's blowing now. Furtive but commanding, it has dictated every move we've ever made. My mother felt it, and so do…
— Joanne Harris
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Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that…
— Joseph Heller
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Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear…
— Francine Rivers
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I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something…
— Cassandra Clare
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I touched my lips to hers again, and this time, it was a very different sort of kiss. It was six years’ worth of kissing,…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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There is something about talking in the night, with the shreds of sleep around your ears, with the silences between one remark and another, the…
— Margo Lanagan
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The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin' at it, see, till they rip the…
— Ken Kesey
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And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scratches of ink on paper could rip someone's soul to…
— Lisa Kleypas
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William: I just had the best idea ever. Let's give Maddox a ring. Paris: You mean propose to him? To grumpy ole Maddox? Willie, why…
— Gena Showalter
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After that, all the while Millie was eating the pudding... we both tore Christopher's character to shreds. It was wonderful fun.... He drove everyone mad…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.
— Jodi Picoult
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Daphne," he said with controlled gentleness, "what is wrong?" She sat down opposite him and placed a hand on his cheek. "I'm so insensitive," she…
— Julia Quinn
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The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the two…
— Nadeem Aslam
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How will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time. Every day. Every hour. There are families all over…
— Jandy Nelson
Who Wrote These Shreds Quotes
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