World Quotes - Page 5

• If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

  James A. Michener

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  "Good Advice". Book by William Safire and Leonard Safir, 1982.

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• And the sound of your heart," he continued. "It's the most significant sound in my world. I'm so attuned to it now, I swear I could pick it out from miles away. But neither of these things matter. This," he said, taking my face in his hands. "You. That's what I'm keeping. You'll always be my Bella, you'll just be a little more durable.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Heart, Hands, Sound

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Inspirational Life, Moving

  Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

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• There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Stupidity, Quality

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.77, Macmillan

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• The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Beautiful, Useless Things, Fireworks

  Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider's Guide to the World of Uglies”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world in which we live, and yet which reflects and comments upon that known world.

  Kate Forsyth

  Thinking, Ordinary World, Magic

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• I had passed on from life, from the world of struggles and hardship and big fat women with annoying laughs, and entered a glorious new existence of utter peace, and joy, and love. And then some git brought me back to life

  Yahtzee Croshaw

  Struggle, Laughing, Joy

  Yahtzee Croshaw (2008). “Mogworld”, p.14, Dark Horse Comics

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• It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.

  Chaim Potok

  Father, Papa, Said

  Chaim Potok (2009). “My Name Is Asher Lev”, p.33, Anchor

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• Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Unhappiness, Easier, Beats

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• It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about them much. For a long time, you think this is just something adults still do after being kids - pretend.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Lying, Believe, Kids

  "Misty".

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• Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Beautiful, Hurt, Fades

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• All the rest of the world could only kill or devastate my mind and body. Bones alone held the power to demolish my soul.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Soul, Mind, Body

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• Making a journey by night is more wonderful than anything in the world.

  Tove Jansson

  Night, Journey, Wonderful

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominpappa at Sea”, p.22, Macmillan

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• I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.

  Albert Hofmann

  Eye, Light, Doe

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• They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their world.

  Tove Jansson

  Hundred, Made, Concentration

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominpappa at Sea”, p.4, Macmillan

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• It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Spiritual, Brave New World, Becoming

  Lemmy Kilmister (2012). “White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.

  Dean Koontz

  Beautiful, Grace, Eternity

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.3, Bantam

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• Legally Blonde was something that I just knew was going to make Reese Witherspoon the biggest star in the world. I knew - seeing Reese handle that with such intelligent ditziness - and she'd just had her baby and she looked fabulous and she's such a hard worker. I just knew. I remember doing press for that movie and Reese was already exhausted, but someone that would never say they were exhausted because she's that much of a professional.

  Selma Blair

  Baby, Hard Work, Intelligent

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• The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "But it'd be there.

  James Jones

  Years, Littles, Might

  James Jones (2012). “The World War II Trilogy: From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, and Whistle”, p.1090, Open Road Media

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• A smile flitted across War's mouth, hidden by her helmet. She had little patience for religion (although she approved heartily of the religious fanatics who sought to cleanse the world of heresy), and the only faith War had was in cold steel and hot blood.

  Jackie Morse Kessler

  Religious, War, Blood

  Jackie Morse Kessler (2010). “Hunger”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

  Anne Rice

  Thinking, Needs, Foolish

  Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.110, Ballantine Books

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• I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me.

  Ned Vizzini

  People, Sanctuary, Bathroom

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• The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.

  Wendell Berry

  New World

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.

  Virginia Woolf

  Children, Animal, Vanity

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.185, Wordsworth Editions

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