Doe Quotes - Page 15

• But love like that doesn't just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always a little love left, underneath. Yes. Horrible, isn't it?

  N.K. Jemisin

  Powerful, Hate, Littles

  N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.97, Hachette UK

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• Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dirty, Ocean, Unique

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• If you really think there's a Santa, why don't you sit on the front steps all night in the freezing cold and see if he climbs down any chimneys tonight. Good luck. And since we're a family that isn't lucky enough to have a chimney, how would Santa get into our house? Does he bring a locksmith with him? And it probably would have to be a Jewish locksmith, because a Christian locksmith is going to want to be home with his family. And how many Jewish locksmiths are there? None.

  Lewis Black

  Christian, Home, Good Luck

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• What I like about cooking is that, so long as you follow the recipe exactly, everything always turns out perfect. It’s too bad there’s no recipe for happiness. Happiness is more like pastry—which is to say that you can take pains to keep cool and not overwork the dough, but if you don’t have that certain light touch, your best efforts still fall flat. The work-around is to buy what you need. I’m talking about pastry, not happiness, although money does make things easier all around.

  Josh Lanyon

  Pain, Fall, Light

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• Here I am with a seriously hunky guy and I'm covered in demon pee. Why does the universe hate me?

  Jana Oliver

  Hate, Here I Am, Guy

  Jana Oliver (2011). “The Demon Trapper's Daughter: A Demon Trappers Novel”, p.34, Macmillan

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• From the inheritance series book one Eragon. Broom The sands of time cannot be stopped years pass whether we will them or not, but we can remember.......what has been lost may yet live on in memories, that which you will hear is imperfect and fragmented yet treasure it for without you it does not exist.

  Christopher Paolini

  Memories, Book, Years

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• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together.

  Beryl Markham

  Children, Good Friend, Boys

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• Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked matter He would be limited, necessarily possessing intelligence since He is infinite and, lacking intelligence, He would be in that sense finite. Does this Infinity inspire in us the idea of essense, while to ourselves we can only attribute the idea of existence? In order words, is He not the whole of which we are but the part?

  Victor Hugo

  Order, Ideas, Inspire

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• There is no life which does not possess its own importance, no life which may not be touched by greatness at any time -- Yes, be touched by greatness and have a hand in it. (from The Mirror of Her Dreams)

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Dream, Greatness, Mirrors

  Stephen R. Donaldson (2013). “The Mirror of Her Dreams”, p.282, Del Rey

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• Hearts, you say? You Humans are always so quick to speak of such things. As though you carry your hearts in the very palms of your hands. But this eye of mine perceives all. There is nothing that it overlooks. If this eye cannot see a thing, then it does not exist. That is the assumption under which I have always fought. What is this "heart"? If I tear open that chest of yours, will I see it there? If I smash open that skull of yours, will I see it there?

  Tite Kubo

  Heart, Eye, Hands

  "Fictional character: Ulquiorra Cifer". "Bleach" manga, Chapter 317, page 20, 2001 - 2016.

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• Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea.

  Zadie Smith

  Girl, Fall, Mean

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.83, Vintage

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• I thought to myself, 'why not write a bestseller?' In the first place, more people buy them and more people read them. You make more money and it doesn’t take any more time to write a bestseller than it does to write a book nobody buys.

  George Burns

  Funny, Book, Writing

  George Burns (1991). “The Most of George Burns”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

  Graham Swift

  Fall, Other Worlds, Illusion

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• Impossible, I realize, to enter another’s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even to a small degree, it is only to the extent that he is willing to make himself known. A man will say: I am cold. Or else he will say nothing, and we will see him shivering. Either way, we will know that he is cold. But what of the man who says nothing and does not shiver? Where all is intractable, here all is hermetic and evasive, one can do no more than observe. But whether one can make sense of what he observes is another matter entirely

  Paul Auster

  Men, Solitude, Matter

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• The reaper does not listen to the harvest.

  Terry Pratchett

  Harvest, Reaper

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• The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification, for the sake of convenience, can we say 'Africa'. In reality, except as a geographical appellation, Africa does not exist.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Ocean, Reality, Cosmos

  Ryszard Kapuscinski (2001). “The Shadow of the Sun”, p.6, Vintage

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• The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own” “Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not” “My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can” “It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity” “Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Real, Ignorance

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• In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she wrote it down. "So what does that really mean? In simple terms." I think it over. It takes me a while to gather my thoughts, but she waits patiently. "I think it means," I say, "that chance encounters are what keep us going. In simple terms.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Thinking, Compassion

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 16, 2011

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• He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Feelings

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.211, Google Publishing

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• Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Two, Comedian, Taste

  Twitter post from Jun 03, 2013

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• But then you slammed a door handle into my gut. And when a girl does that to a guy; it means she likes him.

  Lisa McMann

  Girl, Mean, Doors

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• firestar: jayfeather what does mallow look like? jayfeather: i dont know, ive never seen any

  Erin Hunter

  Looks, Knows

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• Love, I have discovered, does not judge. It just is.

  Mary Balogh

  Judging

  Mary Balogh (2007). “Simply Magic”, p.314, Delacorte Press

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• Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fickle, Remember, Fame

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.", Chapter 7

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Thinking, Wind, Brain

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