Split Quotes
559 quotes by 497 authors
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He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking…
— Milan Kundera
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The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when…
— Mark Twain
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Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of…
— Anthony Storr
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Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of…
— C.S. Lewis
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There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? The universe split every time someone made a decision.…
— Larry Niven
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What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.
— Muriel Rukeyser
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I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make…
— Emily Dickinson
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The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, No higher than the…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-" "She's foul enough to be one..." "Yes, but the world isn't split into…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.
— Anita Shreve
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What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement…
— Che Guevara
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You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?' It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the…
— Studs Terkel
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...thinking that the world was like an orange, that I could split it open with my thumbnail and find a whole different world, the grown-up…
— Jennifer Weiner
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it was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. there were also fragmented moments of great peace…
— Charles Bukowski
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These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the…
— Haruki Murakami
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Whoever says The Smiths have split shall be severely spanked by me with a wet plimsoll.
— Steven Morrissey
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But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.
— Anne Lamott
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It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.
— Frederick Buechner
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Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels. But. Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet…
— Jodi Picoult
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And if you dont come back from the dorm, I'm the one who has to explain to Micheal how I let you go off and…
— Rachel Caine
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