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Source: Empire Falls
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.
Source: The Odds: A Love Story
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.
Source: Twenties Girl
“I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.”
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.”
Source: Number the Stars
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.”
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
“There’s been time this whole time. You can’t kill time with your heart. Everything takes time.”
Source: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.”
1871
Correspondence, Letters to George Sand
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
[The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart, XII, Nelson, Willie; Pipkin, Turk, 159240197X, 2006, Gotham]
Source: Simply Irresistible
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.
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.”
Source: Linda's Kitchen: Simple and Inspiring Recipes for Meals Without Meat
Source: Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.”
Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)
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.
“The road must eventually lead to the whole world.”
Source: On the Road
"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.”
As quoted in The Quotable Will Rogers (2006) by Joseph H. Carter
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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.
“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”
Source: Northanger Abbey
Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.”
Up-Hill http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/rossetti.uphill.html, st. 1 (1861).
Source: The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1
“I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.”
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.”
Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
Source: Magic Strikes
Source: Silk Is for Seduction
Source: Redeeming Love
Source: Heart of Darkness
Source: Does My Head Look Big In This?
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
Nigger: An Autobiography (1964)
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Steve Miller, Chapter 36, Steve, p. 376
Source: 2000s, The Last Song (2009)
“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
Source: Invisible Monsters
Source: After Dark
Epilogue.
Source: Invisible Man (1952)