Five Years Quotes - Page 24

• They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.

  Zadie Smith

  Weed, Growing Up, Sibling

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• There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spring, Writing, Ideas

  "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868 - 1869.

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• Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Years, Young

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Good Earth Trilogy: The Good Earth, Sons, and A House Divided”, p.323, Open Road Media

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• The difference between where you are today and where you'll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you've read.

  Jim Rohn

  Book, Years, Differences

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 30, 2014

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• I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

  Sherman Alexie

  Thinking, Years, Parent

  "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian". Book by Sherman Alexie, electricliterature.com. 2007.

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• Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal you find out that your latest discovery is something you already found out five years ago. Still, it is true that one penetrates deeper and deeper into the same ideas and the same experiences.

  Thomas Merton

  Thinking, Discovery, Years

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

  Jennifer Egan

  Business, Years, Hundred

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.26, Anchor

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• Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We consort with ghosts, even as we sit and eat with, scold and kiss, their current corporeal forms. We speak to people who have vanished and, when they answer us, they do the same. Naturally, the information in these speeches is garbled in the translation.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Mother, Children, Loss

  Karen Joy Fowler (2015). “Black Glass: Short Fictions”, p.42, Penguin

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• You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that they're not." I don't know how to respond to that; it's like being told after thirty-five years that the sky, which I've seen as a brilliant blue, is in fact rather green.

  Jodi Picoult

  Blue, Years, Sky

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.384, Simon and Schuster

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• I once lost five years listening to a Pink Floyd album.

  Jim Butcher

  Years, Listening, Albums

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.36, Penguin

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• Mia and I had been together for more than two years, and yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever, the kind that, had we met five years later and had she not been some cello prodigy and had I not been in a band on the rise - or had our lives not been ripped apart by all this -I was pretty sure it would've been.

  Gayle Forman

  School, Years, Two

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• In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.

  Eve Ensler

  Girl, Years, United States

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• A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Vegas, Years, Long

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.189, Vintage

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• This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And with it all, what conceit! What pretension!

  Anton Chekhov

  Art, Stupid, Reading

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• You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Light, Years

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.37, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they tell you that you have, say, a 20 percent chance of living five years, the math kicks in and you figure that’s one in five . . . so you look around and think, as any healthy person would: I gotta outlast four of these bastards.

  John Green

  Real, Cancer, Math

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.213, Penguin

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• He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Garden, Years, Afternoon

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.105, Broadview Press

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• Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Dragons, Years

  Charles Kingsley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Kingsley (Illustrated)”, p.2515, Delphi Classics

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• At the moment, he is in shock," said Magnus. "He has believed one thing for five years, and now he has realized that all this time he has been looking at the world through a faulty mechanism - that all the things he sacrificed in the name of what he thought was good and noble have been a waste, and that he has only hurt what he he loved." "Good God," said Woolsey. "Are you quite sure you've helped him?

  Cassandra Clare

  Hurt, Years, Names

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?

  Erich Segal

  Girl, Years, Twenties

  Love Story ch. 1 (1970)

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• But it's Posy, Gale's five-year-old sister, who helps the most. She scoots along the bench to Octavia and touches her skin with a tentative finger. “You're green. Are you sick?” “It's a fashion thing, Posy. Like wearing lipstick,” I say. “It's meant to be pretty,” whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes. Posy considers this and says matter-of-factly, “I think you'd be pretty in any color.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fashion, Thinking, Color

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• I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Lying, Years, Honor

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

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• I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn’t understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn’t let me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Suicide, Jesus, Sleep

  "Ham On Rye". Book by Charles Bukowski, 1982.

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• I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Jobs, Business, Writing

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• I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Discovery, Years

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