"I feel as if I’m waiting for something……" — Kate Atkinson
"I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has."
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49 Quotes by Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson has 49 quotes on this site.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right…
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
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She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely…
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They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and…
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Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics…
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Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.
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Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some…
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The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.
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I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
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In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.
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Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a…
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I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends.…
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More Dreadful Quotes
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one of 340 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
— Jane Austen
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own…
— James A. Baldwin
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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
— Josh Billings
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I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.
— Ray Bradbury
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
— A. S. Byatt
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would…
— Albert Camus
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
— Albert Camus
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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill…
— Albert Camus
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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom…
— Donald Cargill
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
— Thomas Carlyle
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...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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