Solid Quotes
974 quotes by 815 authors
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In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our…
— Libba Bray
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Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can…
— Nick Hornby
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I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening as they rose…
— Anne Rice
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For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy…
— J D Salinger
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All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on…
— Homer
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Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that…
— Virginia Woolf
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Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you…
— Euripides
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It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy.
— William S. Burroughs
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When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is…
— Edward Teller
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I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after…
— John Steinbeck
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Love is like light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed stars that sometimes become obscured in…
— Ann Rinaldi
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So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and…
— George Orwell
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People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do…
— Neil Gaiman
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History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the texture of collected…
— Don DeLillo
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I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around…
— John Knowles
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If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm,…
— Pythagoras
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For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among…
— Marcel Proust
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It exasperated her sometimes. The way men could be so sure of themselves. They put words together like sheds or shelves and you could stand…
— Mark Haddon
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Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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