Somewhere Else Quotes
378 quotes by 316 authors
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This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I…
— Haruki Murakami
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It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and…
— John Bingham
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Halfway down the stairs, is a stair, where I sit. There isn't any, other stair, quite like, it. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not…
— A A Milne
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Enemies are somewhere else, as the fighting is almost always “over there,†with Islamic fundamentalism now replacing Russian and Chinese communism as the implacable, furtive…
— Susan Sontag
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So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today.…
— Kim Edwards
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You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.
— Tamora Pierce
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To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
— John Cage
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People move because of the wear and tear of anxiety. Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will…
— Yann Martel
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I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and…
— Ellen Hopkins
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If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I…
— Alice Munro
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The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
— Byron Katie
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From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.
— Tony Hillerman
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Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is…
— Oscar Wilde
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...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans
— Chris Rose
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Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes…
— Don DeLillo
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Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and…
— Louis L'Amour
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Life isn't as magical here, and you're not the only one who feels like you don't belong, or that it's better somewhere else. But there…
— O.R. Melling
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He smiled at that, and then his gaze shifted to a spot over my shoulder and it faded. 'These doubts wouldn’t have anything to do…
— Karen Chance
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We queers of Revelation hill...died of the greed of power, because we were expendable. If you mean to visit any of us, it had better…
— Paul Monette
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