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Source: Empire Falls
Anne Rice book Blackwood Farm
Source: Blackwood Farm (2002)
Context: "No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer one hope – that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
Stewart O'Nan (1961) American writer
Source: The Odds: A Love Story
Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian
Rant in E-Minor (1997)
Variant: The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Beleive or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
“I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) American actress, model
As quoted in The Daily Telegraph (2 March 1988)
“Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.”
Lois Lowry book Number the Stars
Source: Number the Stars
“It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846–1916) American writer
“There’s been time this whole time. You can’t kill time with your heart. Everything takes time.”
David Foster Wallace book Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Source: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
“The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
1871
Correspondence, Letters to George Sand
“You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.”
Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
Willie Nelson (1933) American country music singer-songwriter.
[The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart, XII, Nelson, Willie; Pipkin, Turk, 159240197X, 2006, Gotham]
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: Simply Irresistible
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: Love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.”
Linda McCartney (1941–1998) American photographer
Source: Linda's Kitchen: Simple and Inspiring Recipes for Meals Without Meat
Koren Zailckas (1980) American writer
Source: Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
“The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.”
Paulo Freire book Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 9.
Context: When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.
“How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized”
Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient
Source: The English Patient
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
"The Precarious Vogue of Ingmar Bergman" in Esquire (April 1960); republished as "The Northern Protestant" in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961) and in The Price of the Ticket (1985)
“Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
As quoted in The Quotable Will Rogers (2006) by Joseph H. Carter
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Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982)
Context: I watched an old American submarine movie on television. The creaking plot had the captain and first officer constantly at each other’s throat. The submarine was a fossil, and one guy had claustrophobia. But all that didn’t stop everything from working out well in the end. It was an everything-works-out-in-the-end-so-maybe-war’s-not-so-bad-after-all sort of film. One of these days they’ll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.
William Gibson (1948) American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and founder of the cyberpunk subgenre
“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”
Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey
Source: Northanger Abbey
“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.”
Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet
Up-Hill http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/rossetti.uphill.html, st. 1 (1861).
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
Source: The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1
“I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)
Context: A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies. This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all mankind. This oft misunderstood, this oft misinterpreted concept, so readily dismissed by the Nietzsches of the world as a weak and cowardly force, has now become an absolute necessity for the survival of man. When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am not speaking of that force which is just emotional bosh. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.
“Your purpose… should always be to know… the whole that was intended to be known.”
Maimónides book The Guide for the Perplexed
Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Strikes
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Slays
“How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?”
Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects
Source: Sharp Objects
Loretta Chase (1949) American writer
Source: Silk Is for Seduction
Jim Harrison (1937–2016) American novelist, poet, essayist
Francine Rivers (1947) American writer
Source: Redeeming Love
Randa Abdel-Fattah (1979) contemporary Australian writer of novels for young adults
Source: Does My Head Look Big In This?
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
Dick Gregory (1932–2017) American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur
Nigger: An Autobiography (1964)
Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song
Steve Miller, Chapter 36, Steve, p. 376
Source: 2000s, The Last Song (2009)
Robert James Waller (1939–2017) American writer
Source: The Bridges Of Madison County
“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters
Source: Invisible Monsters
