Swept Away Quotes - Page 4

• Korean feminism has been swept away by popular culture. It became a sort of old-fashioned trend or a joke.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Feminism, Trends, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Korea, Feminism, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In Freethinkers Hall, which before the Nazi resurgence was the national headquarters of the German Freethinkers League, the Berlin Protestant church authorities have opened a bureau for advice to the public in church matters. Its chief object is to win back former churchgoers and assist those who have not previously belonged to any religious congregation in obtaining church membership. The German Freethinkers League, which was swept away by the national revolution, was the largest of such organizations in Germany. It had about 500,000 members.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Winning, Organization

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• I don't know who they are[my characters] . They're entirely invented characters. Maybe that's how I've been able to write so many books, because there are no boundaries for me. I can write a completely fantastical story like "Swept Away" or "Blinded by the Light" and then a non-comic drama like "Chicxulub" or something like "Birnam Wood" that has autobiographical underpinnings. Why not?

  T.C. Boyle

  Drama, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I liked the Hollywood stuff. But I also liked the fact that in both, you know, I guess in the, like, the auteur, the art film auteur at that time was Lina Wertmuller. So, you go see "Swept Away" or you go see a movie she did "Blood Feud" with Sophia Loren and Giancarlo Giannini. And I remember "Wifemistress" was a big movie at that time, really liked it, Laura Antonelli.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Art, Blood, Feuds

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Gratitude, Memories, Lying

  Walter Savage Landor, Charles George Crump (1909). “Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of literary men. Dialogues of famous women. Miscellaneous dialogues”

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• The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.

  Emily Greene Balch

  War, Europe, East

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don't interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay with a broken heart, with a nameless fear, with the desire for revenge. Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears.

  Pema Chodron

  Revenge, Heart, Practice

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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• You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Thinking, Race, Two

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.194, Penguin

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• The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Beautiful, Ideas, Moral

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• I think relationships are very difficult. It's very easy to get swept away with excitement, glamour, and passion. I think the trick is to look for friendship rather than passion.

  Jane Green

  Passion, Thinking, Looks

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• As always, Blay was the anchor who kept him from being swept away.

  J.R. Ward

  Anchors, Qhuinn And Blay

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.332, Penguin

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• He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he is not in the position to do any rescuing of his own.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Girl, Opportunity, Knights

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.92, Random House

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• And so we stood together like that, at the top of that field for what seemed like ages, not saying anything, just holding each other, while the wind kept blowing and blowing at us, tugging our clothes, and for a moment, it seemed like we were holding onto each other because that was the only way to stop us from being swept away into the night.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Night, Wind, Clothes

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2017). “Never Let Me Go: With GCSE and A Level study guide”, p.189, Faber & Faber

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• There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a tempest of passion, and there are others who cling to the rules because they fear that there is no passion there at all, and that if they let go they would simply remain where they are, foolish and unmoved; and they could bear that least of all. Living a life of iron control lets them pretend to themselves that only by the mightiest effort of will can they hold great passions at bay.

  Philip Pullman

  Letting Go, Passion, Iron

  Philip Pullman (2009). “The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ”, p.61, Canongate Books

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• Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept away in the general upheaval and reorganization of the whole of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the bare, shivering human soul, stripped to the last shred, the naked force of the human psyche for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.

  Boris Pasternak

  Lonely, Home, Dust

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• I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage was over and the fragments swept away, has asked what has become of her husband and her children.

  Edwin A. Abbott

  Children, Husband, Half

  Edwin A. Abbott (2015). “Flatland”, p.15, Xist Publishing

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• Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.

  Arundhati Roy

  Steps, Footprint, Wrong Direction

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.52, Penguin Books India

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• But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do

  Jack Kerouac

  Wind, Sea, Matter

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.35, BookBaby

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• Doubts could be swept away only by deeds.

  Winston Churchill

  Doubt, Deeds

  "Their Finest Hour".

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• The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Aquariums, Literature

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• I truly believe that regret is the only wound the soul does not recover from, and so I'm trying to live without regrets. ... Each day is another chance to be swept away.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Regret, Believe, Soul

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• The Hawley Book of the Dead had me completely spellbound from beginning to end. A storytelling virtuosa, Chrysler Szarlan has woven a wondrous, scintillating web of suspense, love, history, and magic that will keep you eagerly turning the pages late into the night. Even readers not normally drawn to the supernatural will be swept away by this book; it has everything a great adventure should have-and so much more.

  Anne Fortier

  Book, Adventure, Night

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• A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wicked, Would Be, Earth

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.116

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• The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative of our own time.  The hallmark of this attitude is its sense that the certitudes and unshakable basic assumptions of former ages have been swept away, that they have been tested and found wanting, that they have been discredited as cheap and somewhat childish illusions.

  Martin Esslin

  Attitude, Reflection, Age

  "The Theatre of the Absurd". Book by Martin Esslin, 1961.

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