Quotes - John (johntravis) (Wakefield, The United Kingdom) Showing 1-30 of 77

#1

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

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#2

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: inspirational, life, work

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#3

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

tags: expectation

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#4

“Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.”
― Louis Menand

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#5

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

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#6

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

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#7

“There's always some further action to take.”
― Pierre Boulle

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#8

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Elizabeth Appell

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#9

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing

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#10

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
― Ben Okri

tags: stories

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#11

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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#12

“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
― Leonora Carrington

tags: dawn, light, silence

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#13

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy

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#14

“You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

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#15

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

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#16

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

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#17

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

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#18

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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#19

“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: fiction, first-lines, ireland, opening-lines, shaving

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#20

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

tags: civil-rights

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#21

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: contentment

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#22

“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman

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#23

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

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#24

“How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.”
― Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

tags: filters

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