Something Else Quotes
1321 quotes by 1056 authors
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The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else…
— Marguerite Duras
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...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.
— Rebecca Solnit
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The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I'd never had, which I can only compare to the sensation…
— Ian Caldwell
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How can it be?" she wondered. "I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns(....) But not to see them at all,…
— Peter S. Beagle
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...intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over...
— John Steinbeck
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Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support…
— C.S. Lewis
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
— Adrienne Rich
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of…
— Nadine Gordimer
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Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something…
— Sarah Dessen
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But that quickly faded, and he frowned. "You're bleeding," he said. "What happened?" Claire sighed and held up her wrist to show him the bandage.…
— Rachel Caine
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But what I thought, and what I still think, and always will, is that she saw me. Nobody else has ever seen me — me,…
— Peter S. Beagle
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What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking." "Uncle Tom?" "I wish there was something else you could…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't…
— Frank McCourt
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Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much…
— David Steindl-Rast
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And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide…
— Ernest Gaines
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We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.
— Robert James Waller
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You think that you are an iconoclast, but you’re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you…
— Michael Ondaatje
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You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what…
— Lloyd Alexander
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That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was…
— Nicholas Sparks
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But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away,…
— Nicholas Sparks
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