Wall Quotes
3017 Wall quotes by 1990 unique authors
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Ernest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian words that meant walled garden. I knew then that he understood how necessary the…
— Paula McLain
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Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst,…
— James A. Baldwin
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And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It…
— Pablo Neruda
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Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't…
— George R. R. Martin
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But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge…
— Lauren Oliver
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Jon: Have you seen the wall? | Sam: I'm fat, not blind.
— George R. R. Martin
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For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at all. Me, I…
— Dorothy Allison
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Life isn't perfect. It's not supposed to be. We all make mistakes. You bash your head against the wall and you get hurt, but you…
— Karen White
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Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Some people you just had to embrace, in some way or another, had to bite into the muscle, to remain sane in their company. You…
— Michael Ondaatje
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It's amazing how willpower can build walls.
— Yann Martel
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To survive, humans will work together. Accept each other. For a moment, we are all equal. Backs against the wall, human beings are at their…
— Daniel H. Wilson
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I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost…
— Joan Didion
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Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more…
— Anais Nin
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I write the word solitude on my wall and then below it: Do you know me at all? Are my words just air? Is my…
— Jessica Sorensen
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When we were first married, I thought he must have been the most heartless, hateful man I'd ever known, but he was just as much…
— Lauren DeStefano
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Nowadays I’m really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written soft-core. And I miss good old storytelling. And you…
— Joss Whedon
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Any action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the city-walls of feminism.…
— Caitlin Moran
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Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls around her. "I'm human, do you hear me? It hurts!
— James Patterson
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But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up…
— Lawrence Anthony
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