"...it occurred to her how some people continued……" — Susan Minot
"...it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while others might initially enter in a sort of blaze and seem to change everything but then might not stay around."
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29 Quotes by Susan Minot
Susan Minot has 29 quotes on this site.
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When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock…
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The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person,…
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After the briskness of loving, loving stops. And you roll over with death stretched out alongside you like a feather…
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[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates.…
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Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved…
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I would have fallen in love with you anywhere.
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There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.
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After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even…
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...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.
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Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which…
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Did people ever stop changing? They surprised you with fresh pain. Sometimes they surprised you with happiness, but the pain…
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She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one…
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More Blaze Quotes
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one of 149 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
— Aristotle
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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the…
— James A. Baldwin
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I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings…
— Joseph Dalton Hooker
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A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I…
— Cus D'Amato
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When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle…
— Samuel Rutherford
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What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos,…
— James Joseph Sylvester
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Yearning for Allah and His meeting is like the gentle breeze blowing upon the heart, extinguishing the blaze of the…
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim…
— Mark Twain
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What better way to die? It's fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory.
— James Dean
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We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.
— Rosemary Sutcliff
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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.
— Unknown Author
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