Quote by E.L. Doctorow Download Open image ““I remember holding her in my arms and absolving God of meaninglessness.”” — E.L. Doctorow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Yet even in such moments she didn’t doubt that God existed. She just sometimes wondered if He remembered that she did.” — Tamera Alexander Copy Share Image
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“Beneath her curls, I forget the world, With a mere gaze she raises my hopes of gold. Love is as much in her heart… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
“When I look at her now, I think, for just one second, that God doesn't hate me so much after all.” — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
“She was closed up like a fist. It her very own memory, not theirs, her very own real and terrible and lonely and dark… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image
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“I cite too the ordinary fears of mortality the inspection of a fast-growing mole on the side of the nose blood in the stool a painful injury or the mournful witness of the slow death of a parent all this is given to all men as well as the starting awake in the nether hours of the night from such… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share
“And what if neutrinos in their uncountable multitudinous dark-matteredness gravitationally directing the universe . . . are the souls of the dead?” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“It was as if God had decreed this characterless engagement of brainless forces as his answer to the human presumption.” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Treason the only crime defined in the Constitution. Tyranny as under the Stuart and Tudor kings characterized by the elimination of political dissent under the laws of treason. Treason statutes which were many and unending, the instrument by which the monarch eliminated his opposition and also added to his wealth. The property of the executed traitor forfeited by his heirs… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share
“Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him an awesome responsibility to maintain the illusions… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Emily supposed the modern world was fortunate in the progress of science. But she could not help but feel at this moment the impropriety… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Father looked at her and she was beautiful in the way she had been as a girl. He did not realize the pleasure he… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Happiness consists of living in the dailiness of life and not knowing how happy you are. True happiness comes of not knowing you're happy.” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Grandmamma had been the last connection to our past. I had understood her as some referent moral authority to whom we paid no heed,… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“I asked this question: How can I think about my brain when it’s my brain doing the thinking? So is this brain pretending to… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“She's some kind of Socialist-anarchist-anarcho-syndicalist-Communist. Unless you're one of them you can't tell exactly what any of them are.” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share
“I didn’t actually have to write a thing because the act of reading was my writing. I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything. It’s not a bad way to begin. It’s to blur that distinction between reader and writer. If you think about it, any book that you pick up as… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share
