Ghost Quotes - Page 38

• Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history, critics... and one by one if you're really painting, they walk out. And if you're really painting YOU walk out.

  Philip Guston

  Inspirational, Teacher, Art

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• When the hearthfire turns to blue, what to do? what to do? run outside, run and hide when his eyes are black as crow? where to go? where to go? near and far. Here they are. see a man without a face? move like ghosts from place to place. whats their plan? whats their plan? Chandrian. Chandrian

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Running, Moving, Eye

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• Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a particular tone of voice, from voice to voice, as the fetishist follows a beautiful foot, scarcely seeing the woman herself? A voice, a mouth, an eye, all stemming from the original fountain of our first desire, directing it, enslaving us, until we choose to unravel the fatal web and free ourselves.

  Anais Nin

  Beautiful, Couple, Real

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• Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

  Ray Bradbury

  Father, Writing, Dry Bones

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live

  Saul Williams

  Mother, Children, Father

  Saul Williams (2012). “She”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

  James Joyce

  Brother, Men, Wife

  James Joyce (2016). “Ulysses”, p.217, First Avenue Editions

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• Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sweet, Children, Father

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• (What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is also where my ghosts reside.) (You have ghosts?) (Of course I have ghosts.) (But you are a child.) (I am not a child.) (But you have not known love.) (These are my ghosts, the spaces amid love.)

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Eye, Space

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• Before Luce could reply, a skinny, dark haired girl appeared in from of her, wagging her long fingers in Luce's face. "Ooooooh," the girl taunted in a ghost-story-telling voice, dancing around Luce in a circle. "The reds are watching youuuu." "Get out of here, Arriane, before I have you lobotimized," the attendant said, though it was clear from her first brief but genuine smile that she had some coarse affection for that crazy girl. It was also clear that Arriane did not reciprocate the love. She mimed a jerking-off motion at the attendant, then stared at Luce, daring her to be offended.

  Lauren Kate

  Girl, Crazy, Dark

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• You had a package. It was torn, so I looked in.” She lifted one of a stack of firefighter calendars, with his own mug and half-naked body on the cover. “Nice,” she said, a ghost of a smile crossing her lips. “Mr. 2008.” He bit back a sigh. “It’s for charity.” “And you definitely contributed.

  Jill Shalvis

  Nice, Firefighter, Naked

  Lori Wilde, Rhonda Nelson, Cara Summers, Cami Dalton, Kira Sinclair (2008). “One-Click Buy: August Harlequin Blaze: Secret Seduction\The Hell-Raiser\Lie with Me\Pleasure to the Max!\Whispers in the Dark\Flashback”, p.1125, Harlequin

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• Yes," she answers and does not move. She might, at this moment, be nothing but a floating intelligence; not even a brain inside a skull, just a presence that perceives, as a ghoast might. Yes, she thinks, this is probably how it must feel to be a ghost. It's a little like reading, isn't it-that same sensation of knowing people, settings, situations, without playing any particular part beyond that of the willing observer.

  Michael Cunningham

  Moving, Reading, Thinking

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• I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It was all I asked for, and all I ever got.

  Terry McMillan

  Tired, Men, Giving

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.34, Penguin

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• Sorry, we've got ghosts.

  Deborah Harkness

  Sorry

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.390, Penguin

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• People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.

  Neil Gaiman

  People, Darkness, American Gods

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 19, 2001.

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• I looked like a ghost. And I should know. I’ve seen a few.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Should, Knows

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• For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors - between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Sacrifice, Self

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.96, Penguin

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• And Jessamine-Jessamine was gazing at her in abject horror, like someone who has seen a vision of their own ghost. For a moment Tessa felt a stab of guilt. It lasted only a moment, though. Slowly Jessamine lowered her hand from her mouth, her face still very pale. "Goodness, my nose is enormous," she exclaimed. "Why didn't anyone tell me?

  Cassandra Clare

  Hands, Vision, Guilt

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Men, Wicked

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.58

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• But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He's trying to lay them to rest here, not stir them up, and you seem eager to drag out all the sad old bones of his history and make them dance again. It's not nice, and it's not fair.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Nice, Stupid, Trying

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• Memories can bring comfort to the old and infirm, but memories can also be implacable foes, a malicious army of temporal ghosts forever pillaging the long-sought-after peace of our twilight years.

  Rick Yancey

  Memories, Twilight, Army

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.

  Javier Marías

  Perspective, Stories, Witness

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• ... we chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have; it's that we've held all we could want and then had to watch it slip away.

  Charles de Lint

  Dream, Memories, Watches

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• Ashley tugged on his sleeve. "You're scaring me Walter." "Sorry I guess talking about ghosts is-" "It's not that," she interrupted shaking her head. "You're using logic. That's scaring me." Walters eyebrows knitted. "So much for terms of endearment

  Bryan Davis

  Sorry, Talking, Eyebrows

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• She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.

  Ann Brashares

  Bees, Dramatic, Destructive

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.228, Delacorte Press

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• [The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.

  Aaron Huey

  God, Tired, Government

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