Differences Quotes - Page 27

• In the end, there probably isn't much difference between being in love and acting like you're in love.

  Dan Chaon

  Being In Love, Acting, Like You

  Dan Chaon (2009). “Among the Missing”, p.82, Ballantine Books

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• Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since,in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you?

  Kate DiCamillo

  Thinking, Soldier, Might

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• The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound down by their practical world view, are able to place those members of the disintegrating tribes they may have seen in their travels among these once-living walls, unaware of the moral distance separating them, since only the semi-indigenous spirit of the South American can grasp the subtle differences.

  Che Guevara

  Wall, Distance, Views

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• Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine its opposite, this miraculous world the Asian Taoists call the "Ten Thousand Things"? And if the darkness just got darker? And then you were dead? What would you care? How would you eve know the difference?

  Denis Johnson

  Thinking, Opposites, Imagination

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.57, Macmillan

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• Once there was a princess who was very beautiful. She shone bright as the stars on a moonless night. But what difference did it make that she was beautiful? None. No difference." Why did it make no difference?" asked Abilene. Because," said Pellegrina, "She was a princess who loved no one and cared nothing for love, even though there were many who loved her.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Beautiful, Stars, Princess

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane”, p.26, Candlewick Press

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• It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?

  Virginia Woolf

  Sex, Men, Two

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.114

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• What makes this danger so terrible is that humans tip the balance of your world. No other species can make such a difference, for good or ill. If humans can live in harmony with other forms of life, the world rejoices. If not, the world suffers--and may not survive.

  T.A. Barron

  Suffering, Balance, World

  T. A. Barron (2011). “The Eternal Flame”, p.223, Penguin

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• When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big.

  Michael J. Fox

  Dream, Doctors, Drug

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• Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past and the futures is that one has happened while the other has not. Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time. Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...) Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon. Lies 7: Reality is truth.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Reality, Past

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• I've hurt you terribly my love, and I'll hunt you again during the next fifty years. And you are going to hurt me, Ian-never I hope as much as you are hurting me now. But if that's the way it has to be, then I'll endure it, because the only alternative is to live without you, and that is no life at all. And the difference is that I know it, and you don't... not yet.

  Judith McNaught

  Hurt, Years, Alternatives

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• When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

  Toni Morrison

  Needs, Alive, World

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between my mother and Hannah. My mother deserted me at the 7-Eleven, hundred of kilometers away from home. Hannah, however, did the unforgivable. She deserted me in our own backyard.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Home, Backyards

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• Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. - The Babies speech 1879

  Mark Twain

  Baby, Real, Long

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2171, GENERAL PRESS

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• Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.

  Arthur Golden

  People, Difficulty, Heard

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.105, Random House

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• To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

  Mark Twain

  Austin, Salary, Impossible

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• Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Too Late, Knows

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.4, Oscar Wilde

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• People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size difference is sexy. It means: I am willing to go the distance for you.

  Miranda July

  Sexy, Distance, Mean

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'. ... 'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Kings, Book, Thinking

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• Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me.

  Amy Bloom

  Writing, Practice, People

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• In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was due to accidents of geography and biogeography—in particular, to the continents’ different areas, axes, and suites of wild plant and animal species. That is, the different historical trajectories of Africa and Europe stem ultimately from differences in real estate.

  Jared Diamond

  Real, Animal, Axes

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• Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Young, Young Women

  Major Barbara (1907) act 3

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• When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Eye, Way, Scream

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• Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture. But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make? They could not alter your feelings, for that matter you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to. They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.

  George Orwell

  Heart, Feelings, Details

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• There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worse of all, no way out

  Kenneth Grahame

  Woods, Way, Ends

  Kenneth Grahame (2012). “The Wind in the Willows: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.36, Penguin

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• If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.

  Tamora Pierce

  Lying, Hands, Details

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