Wall Quotes
3017 Wall quotes by 1990 unique authors
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Fred: "Is that brick wall your boyfriend?" Doug: "Only in my dreams." Fred: "Oh, you too? I'm Fred." Doug: "Doug. I should mention, in all…
— Robin Jones Gunn
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And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there.…
— Khaled Hosseini
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It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out…
— Jack Kerouac
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It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all…
— Martin Amis
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What we want most is to be held...and told..that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and papa's eyes, is roaring logs on…
— Truman Capote
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It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind…
— Milan Kundera
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The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin…
— Irving Stone
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You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.
— Charlaine Harris
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He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed…
— Etgar Keret
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Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still…
— Stephen King
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Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But…
— Leo Tolstoy
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There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my…
— Hermann Hesse
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Oh,to be walking through Leningrad white night after white night, the dawn to dusk all smelting together like platinum ore, Tatiana thought, turning away to…
— Paullina Simons
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I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men…
— Robert E. Howard
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I sit there in my bed staring at the wall, feeling happy, enjoying the way the wall looks, how pink and how white it is.…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your body and mind;…
— R.J. Ellory
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The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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It was the darkness that got you. It was heavy darkness, greasy and compelling. It made walls round you, and shut you in so that…
— Jean Rhys
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And Hermione was struggling to her feet in the wreckage, and three red-headed men were grouped on the ground where the wall had blasted apart.…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She was only standing,…
— Ray Bradbury
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Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.
— Milan Kundera
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Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle…
— Stephen King
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I liked the feeling of love,' [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. 'I…
— Lois Lowry
Who Wrote These Wall Quotes
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