Surface Quotes

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There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too… — Katherine Dunn
When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath.… — Sylvia Plath
Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible, mystical force that… — Dan Brown
There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that… — Dave Barry
We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine… — Paulo Coelho
There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a… — Colum McCann
It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities… — Don DeLillo
For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still… — H P Lovecraft
There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements they… — J.R.R. Tolkien
But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting… — Neal Stephenson
I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying… — James Salter
It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseeen dynamisms… — Sri Aurobindo
Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface. — Jodi Picoult
Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but… — Virginia Woolf
I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these buttons… — Pablo Neruda
Yesterday i carved your name into the surface of an ice cube then held it against my chest til it melted into my aching pores… — Andrea Gibson
This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security. — Jean Baudrillard
I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a many-colored and… — Anne Rice
I mean, maybe under the surface, somewhere that's hard to see, I've known it had to end for a long time. I just never thought… — Susane Colasanti
Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts have met with… — Max Brooks

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