Candor Quote by Don DeLillo Download Open image “I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.” — Don DeLillo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Candor Honesty Silver Soul Spirituality Want Your soul
The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me. Don't prettify me though, whatever else you do: I have no wish to be a decorated skull. But I leave myself in your hands. What choice… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
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Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, - Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, I must be here confined by you... But release me from my bands With the help of your good hands: Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please: now I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share
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“In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am not covetous for gold; but if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it! — Martin H Fischer Copy Share Image
What choice do I have? I cannot be without you, but I will not destroy your soul. — Edward Cullen Copy Share Image
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Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
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“Grass: I live in a great steel tower that reflects the blazing sun. People catch fire just walking by. The more bodies that pile… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
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The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
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I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
