Differences Quotes - Page 25

• But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.

  Rachel Cohn

  Choices, Ghost, Knows

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.50, Egmont UK

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• Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

  James M. Barrie

  Believe, Islands, Three

  "Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy)".

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• You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." "Must be a human thing." "Exactly.

  Christopher Moore

  Trying, Morality, Tricky

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Practical Demonkeeping”, p.93, Zondervan

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• It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

  Michael Chabon

  Denial, Used, Known

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.197, Open Road Media

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• How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it. Nobody would know it. It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Earth, Lasts

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.143, Vintage

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• There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether they stand, sit or lie.

  Samuel Beckett

  Lying, Littles, Appearance

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• Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

  Terry Pratchett

  Erotic, Kinky, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Eric: A Novel of Discworld”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

  William James

  Degrees, Different, Mysticism

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.297, Courier Corporation

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• You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ends, Know How, Knows

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• I know what every colored woman in this country is doing... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.

  Toni Morrison

  Country, Women, History

  Sula (1973)

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• One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Knowing, Bed, Tonight

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dog, Writing, Faithful

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.712, Simon and Schuster

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• What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today.

  Tom Robbins

  Lying, Hero, Doe

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• Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert.

  Haruki Murakami

  Different, Desert, Way To Live

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun”, p.71, Random House

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• And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, One Day, Looks

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.422, Simon and Schuster

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• The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

  J. D. Salinger

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Littles, Lasts

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)

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• Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless we're going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes.

  Hugh Laurie

  Fall, Blow, Piano

  "The Gun Seller". Book by Hugh Laurie, 1996.

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• The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Political, Politics

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• Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

  Voltaire

  Birthday, Equality, Men

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• And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long as things were good, and in that moment when they could have been good again, was about the irrelevance of words. You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument?

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Irrelevance, Long, World

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• Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Motivational, Real

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• It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life Lesson, Pride

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• It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

  Joseph Heller

  War, Winning, Death And Dying

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.

  Herman Melville

  Health, Color, Orange

  1891 Billy Budd, Foretopman (first published1924), ch.21.

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