"It occurred to him that seeing a woman's……" — John Crowley
"It occurred to him that seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how her face becomes less the whole story."
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20 Quotes by John Crowley
John Crowley has 20 quotes on this site.
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The things that make us happy make us wise.
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Well, do you do that consciously?" Daily Alice asked, only partly of Cloud. "Do what?" Cloud said. "Grow up? No.…
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The further in you go, the bigger it gets.
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Love is a myth.' 'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.' 'What?' 'In winter,'Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is…
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The universe is Time's body.
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It was anyway all a long time ago; the world, we know now, is as it is and not different;…
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First, she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo…
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Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.
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She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into…
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God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books…
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There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which…
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Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much.…
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike…
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
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Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
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I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people…
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise…
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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
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In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from…
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
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