Varied Quotes
256 Varied quotes by 236 unique authors
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The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every…
— Thomas Mann
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…It’s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic,…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied…
— Paula Fox
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In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And absence of energy,…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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How long have I been here, what a question, I've often wondered. And often I could answer, An hour, a month, a year, a century,…
— Samuel Beckett
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She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing,…
— Jane Austen
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[Adam picks up the camera] "I have to get a shot of this." The reaction in the room was swift, and unanimous: every single person…
— Sarah Dessen
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There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do…
— Stephen Fry
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The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your…
— Ellen Hopkins
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For a moment she'd wondered if the seal around her sockets were tight enough to allow the tears simply to go on and fill up…
— Thomas Pynchon
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The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being.…
— R A Salvatore
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The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification,…
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as witty in speech…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw…
— Virginia Woolf
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For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting store by these…
— Terry Pratchett
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As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic misunderstanding…
— Yukio Mishima
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I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.
— Dorothy Dunnett
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The Morrigan’s ideas of sport and mine varied widely. As a Chooser of the Slain, she tends to enjoy nothing so much as a protracted…
— Kevin Hearne
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