Utterly Quotes
850 quotes by 690 authors
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Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops…
— Andre Breton
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One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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So, have you been enjoying yourself these days, Kazami?' I'm having lots of fun.' It was true. That made the sense of regret even keener,…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost…
— Sam Harris
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The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal...…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly…
— Louise Glück
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While carefully synchronizing our wings-they almost touched-Fang leaned in,gently put one hand behind my neck and kissed me.It was just about close to heaven i'll…
— James Patterson
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The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian…
— Fritz Leiber
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I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out of the narrow…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only…
— Jacqueline Carey
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Then a person has only one tale?†No, some have two or three separate ones or more,†Fleet said. “Some people have many tales. Sometimes…
— Chris Wooding
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I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have…
— Sylvia Plath
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And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well, I would have…
— Sue Miller
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Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his…
— Mircea Eliade
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Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson from…
— Bill Watterson
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A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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