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251 Wrecks quotes by 213 unique authors
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I talk about going to [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to…
— Sarah Vowell
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And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What…
— Philip Roth
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Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
— Iris Murdoch
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There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and,…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of raising; and looked…
— Charles Dickens
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The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.
— Charles Dickens
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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.
— Annie Dillard
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He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear;…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Enoch...why are you here? Why has my spirit been incarnated into a physical bodi in this world generally? Or specifically, why am I here in…
— Neal Stephenson
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Abby: I could be a slave to your darkest desires. I can do things. Anything you want. Tommy: Well, that's terrific, because we have a…
— Christopher Moore
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As Cole left school that day with Peter, they stopped beside the bulldog statue. "You two are wrecking our school!" shouted one of the jocks…
— Ben Mikaelsen
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Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan…
— Alistair Maclean
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And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains.…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around
— Lisa McMann
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Lights! Lights would be very good right now! (Amanda) Since they hurt my eyes to the point I can barely see, no they wouldn't. Trust…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.'…
— Craig Ferguson
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Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure⦠For already have I suffered full much, and…
— Homer
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I have to go to her, Lucan. For my own sanity, if nothing else. If I stay here, I'm not sure what good I'd be,…
— Tina St. John
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I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my…
— Annie Dillard
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There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child who'd suffered something…
— Stephen Dobyns
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Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Oh my God, this can't be happening!" I cried. "What?" "Mopeds? Those are the wheels Pete gives us? I knew he was pissed off at…
— Jennifer Rardin
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...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?
— Nicole Krauss
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