When One Quotes

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It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth… — H. Rider Haggard
It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said. It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.'… — David Gemmell
Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as… — Marisha Pessl
The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad,… — Marisha Pessl
Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing… — Gail Carriger
The distance is nothing when one has a motive. — Jane Austen
But it was not the roomâ€™s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder,… — James A. Baldwin
When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing.… — Frederic Chopin
And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water,… — Sarah Waters
It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere! — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of oneself in repose.… — Kate Morton
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated… — John Donne
One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever. — Leonora Carrington
When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, sheâ€”or he, of course, as the case may beâ€”must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering. — Aldous Huxley
Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our… — Voltaire
I remember a group therapy session when one of the patients was reluctantly turning his corner. He would accept it, he said, but he wouldn't… — Sheldon B. Kopp
Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen… — Amy Goodman
It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and… — Kate Morton
Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the testing… — Sylvia Plath
Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely. — Haruki Murakami

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