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Things Quotes by Nicole Krauss
- I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five…
- I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature…
- At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why…
- When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the…
- After she left everything fell apart. No Jew was safe. There were rumors of unfathomable things, and because we couldn't fathom them we failed to…
- Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because…
- That he liked to think of himself as a philosopher. That he questioned all things, even the most simple, to the extent that when someone…
- I walked down my snow covered street. Out of habit I turned and checked for my footsteps. When I arrived at my building I looked…
- There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary…
- Later - when things happened that they could never have imagined - she wrote him a letter that said: When will you learn that there…
- Then I turned the page and at the top it said THINGS I MISS ABOUT M and there was a list of 15 things, and…
- To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it with your eyes…
- There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that…
- Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been
- You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle