"Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like……" — John Crowley
"Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much. Into him she could pour all the inarticulate perceptions, all the knowings and unknowings she felt, which, though he couldn't understand them really, he would receive reverently, and out of him would come then the advice, the warnings, the clever decisions she could never have made."
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John Crowley
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20 Quotes by John Crowley
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It occurred to him that seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes…
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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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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they…
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but…
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The worst men often give the best advice.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there…
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