"There is no knowing what is in a…" — Charles Portis
"There is no knowing what is in a man's heart."
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Charles Portis
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27 Quotes by Charles Portis
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She gave me a pledge card, a card promising an annual gift of $5, $10, or $25 toward the support…
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In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and…
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Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with…
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One time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his…
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It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from…
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Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.
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My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.
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I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts.…
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Lookin' back is a bad habit.
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On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his…
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I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.
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But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when…
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the…
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I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can…
— Alexis Arguello
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It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want,…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
— Lance Armstrong
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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
— Francis of Assisi
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It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.
— Mary Astell
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I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help…
— Rodney Atkins
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an…
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