- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will never say a bad word about 'One Tree Hill'. The entire shape of my world changed because of that show, so I'll always be very affectionate toward it.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a great culture to be a part of: there are hockey players all over the world. It has taken me to an education, getting an education at Wisconsin. I've been able to travel the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood gave me a very powerful sense of being spooked. I didn't know whether what I was seeing were sensory images of other people's unhappiness. Perhaps that was just the way the world manifested itself to me.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historical fiction. When your character is new to a place, or things alter around them, that's the point to step back and fill in the details of their world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509, or even 1939, life in 2009 is sweet as honey.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The crowd is wonderful. There is always a superb atmosphere in the finish area. It's good for the World Cup. I missed it a lot when I had to rest and it's so nice to be back here.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020