Utter Quotes
526 quotes by 447 authors
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Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and…
— Nick Hornby
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Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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[He] looked up and imagined the hand of God flinging stars like shining dust across the heavens. No. He was wrong to think such pagan…
— Francine Rivers
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--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others
— Philip Roth
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When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he’s been waiting…
— Libba Bray
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People said that he was very nice, but I confess that his utter grotesqueness made me uneasy; perhaps in the same way that the sight…
— James A. Baldwin
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There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally different. She wore…
— Haruki Murakami
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He had lunch with Cecilia that afternoon. They ate their corned beef on rye and cream cheese with lox in a diner peopled by waiters…
— Mary Gaitskill
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When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of…
— C.S. Lewis
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I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to…
— Lance Armstrong
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my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp…
— E E Cummings
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Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that…
— Jose Saramago
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Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk…
— Aldous Huxley
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I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be…
— Knut Hamsun
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Whatever’s there to feel, feel it – the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache of your own…
— Thomas Lynch
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she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to…
— Paulo Coelho
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And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people…
— Michael Ende
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France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if…
— Daniel Handler
Who Wrote These Utter Quotes
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