Version Quotes
894 quotes by 770 authors
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Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead of…
— Caroline Knapp
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At heart, I have always been a coper, I've mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I've always stored up…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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How does it feel? I feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have to take a test you…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock…
— Arundhati Roy
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The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version…
— Stephen Fry
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That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of…
— Dave Eggers
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I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.
— William Shatner
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Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or…
— Salman Rushdie
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are…
— Erica Jong
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It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
— Rick Riordan
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We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought…
— S E Hinton
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People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious…
— Frank McCourt
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America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.
— David Byrne
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Everything is a version of something else.
— Patrick Marber
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No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of…
— Madonna Ciccone
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We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in...
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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