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• I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if somebody was following me, I looked around. I was mistaken. I was quite alone.

  Charles Bukowski

  Moonlight, Streets, Mistaken

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• When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

  Tom Stoppard

  Mystery, Lost, Arcadia

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.119, Faber & Faber

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• A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

  Rick Warren

  Simple, Empty Life, Life Is

  Rick Warren (2010). “Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Places that are empty of you are empty of life.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Paul Spencer-Longhurst, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (2000). “The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s”, Scala Books

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• Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.

  John Green

  Faces, Energy, South Carolina

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.177, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dream, Horse, Beer

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.

  Cornelia Funke

  Air, Voice, Paint

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.14, Scholastic Inc.

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• The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, 'Overwhelming feeling of dread.' That was going to go over nicely.

  Anne Ursu

  Teacher, Feelings, Would Be

  Anne Ursu (2008). “The Siren Song”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal attraction draws me down into the abysses of thought, down into those innermost recesses which never cease to fascinate the strong. I shall spend my life gazing at the ocean of art, where others voyage or fight; and from time to time I’ll entertain myself by diving for those green and yellow shells that nobody will want. So I shall keep them for myself and cover the walls of my hut with them.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Strong, Wall

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• A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well. The desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is also ultimately empty. It is hard, it is barren. Its very nature is stone.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Heart, Fate, Destiny

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• Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Wall, Night, Black

  Guy de Maupassant, Arnold Kellett (1976). “The diary of a madman, and other tales of horror”, Pan

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• English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

  Denis Johnson

  Rainbow, English Words, Prisms

  Denis Johnson (2003). “Already Dead: A California Gothic”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years, the face of love no longer stirred up agonies of grief and bitterness. Rather, one was left feeling simply grateful. For how unimaginably empty the past would be without him to remember.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Grief, Grateful, Past

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.432, Macmillan

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• Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

  Barry Hughart

  Errors, Careers, Way

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• As we passed under a streetlamp I noticed, beside my own bobbing shadow, another great, leaping grotesquerie that had an uncanny suggestion of the frog world about it . . . judging from the shadow, it was soaring higher and more gaily than myself. 'Very well,' you will say, 'Why didn’t you turn around. That would be the scientific thing to do.' But let me tell you it is not done ― not on an empty road at midnight.

  Loren Eiseley

  Judging, Shadow, World

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• The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with superior genes. Small male frogs—it's been documented—discover if they position themselves in empty drainpipes, the pipe acts as a voice amplifier and the small frog appears much larger than it really is." So?" So that's what art is for the artist, an empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

  Margaret Atwood

  Art, Powerful, Voice

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.168, Anchor

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• It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Men, Desire, Littles

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.180, Penguin

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• But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the rain descending on black earth in early spring. --- And we, who always think of happiness rising, would feel the emotion that almost baffles us when a happy thing falls.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Spring, Rain, Fall

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• I'll tell you one thing about me, and that is that I'm not to keen on being bossed around. If, say, my Mom tells me to empty the dishwasher, I like to wait a little bit, you know, not hop up and do it right away, because then it feels more like my own idea. That's a little problematic when you have an actual boss.

  Deb Caletti

  Mom, Ideas, Waiting

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• I tried. Can't do it. Brain's empty.

  Sharon Creech

  Brain

  Sharon Creech (2001). “Love That Dog”, p.1, A&C Black

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• McKenna will always be a part of me, no matter where he goes. They say that people who've lost a limb sometimes feel as if they still have it. How many times I've felt that McKenna was still here, and the empty space beside me was alive with his presence." She closed her eyes and leaned forward until her forehead and the tip of her nose touched the cool glass. "I love him beyond reason," she whispered. "He's a stranger to me now, and yet he is still so familiar. I can't imagine a sweeter agony, having him so close.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Eye, I Love Him, Agony

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• What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty.

  Jodi Picoult

  Cutting, Vision, Sometimes

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the purpose of my story, she should have it with her. I sat on my dad's bed and flipped through page after empty page. No stamps. No exotic locales. No travel-worn smudges or creases. Just the ID information and my mother's black-and-white photo which if it were used in a psychology textbook on the meaning of facial expressions would be labelled: Obscenely, heartbreakingly hopeful.

  Miriam Toews

  Mother, Dad, Black And White

  Miriam Toews (2004). “A Complicated Kindness: A Novel”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Book, Writing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust.

  Stephen King

  Dust, Sky, Rose

  Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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