Goes On Quotes - Page 19

• Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people - we go on.' 'We take a beatin' all the time.' 'I know.' Ma chuckled. 'Maybe that makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But, Tom, we keep a-comin'. Don' you fret none, Tom. A different time's comin'.

  John Steinbeck

  Kids, People, Different

  The Grapes of Wrath ch. 20 (1939)

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• I miss you terribly sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster. Just as you take care of the birds and the fields every morning, every morning I wind my own spring. I give it some 36 good twists by the time I've got up, brushed my teeth, shaved, eaten breakfast, changed my clothes, left the dorm, and arrived at the university. I tell myself, "OK, let's make this day another good one." I hadn't noticed before, but they tell me I talk to myself a lot these days. Probably mumbling to myself while I wind my spring.

  Haruki Murakami

  Morning, Spring, Wind

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• As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Lasts, Solve

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 04, 2014

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• A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Couple, Together, Reason

  Simone de Beauvoir (1969). “The Woman Destroyed”

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• Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.

  Danny Kaye

  Love, Heart, Circles

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• It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.

  Kristina McMorris

  Love You, Thinking, Light

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• Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Believe, Jokes, Ifs

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• Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Blessed, Usual, Solace

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…”, p.484, e-artnow

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• If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.

  Robert Jordan

  Ifs, Knows

  Robert Jordan (2010). “A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.88, Macmillan

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• Nobody home but She for Whom I Am the World. Can't go on like this, can't keep doing it.- Jericho Barrons

  Karen Marie Moning

  Home, World, Jericho

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• Oh. No wonder I'd been sick. I hadn't eaten anything since then. I'm a girl who likes her meals, so it hadn't been a weight-loss tactic. I'd just been too busy bumping from crisis to crisis. Go on the Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance of Death Diet! Run for your life, and miss meals, too! Exercise plus starvation.

  Charlaine Harris

  Girl, Running, Loss

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• I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this pang, this pathos, this fatality which clings to love. Friendship never has that doomed look. Why, what is the matter? I have not stopped loving you, but because I cannot go on kissing your dim dear face, we must part, we must part.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Kissing, Loving You, Feelings

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight”, p.92, Penguin UK

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• As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

  Agatha Christie

  Character, Individuality, Everyday

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• Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.

  Paul Auster

  Mean, Forever, Stories

  Paul Auster (2008). “The New York Trilogy”, p.237, Faber & Faber

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• Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the really big life mistake, was to go along with Walter's version of her in spite of knowing that it wasn't right. He seemed so certain of her goodness that eventually he wore her down.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Mistake, Heart, Knowing

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• Does a soldier go to war in order to kill the enemy? no, he goes in order to die for his country. Does a wife want to show her husband how happy she is? no, she wants him to see how she suffers in order to make him happy Does the husband go to work thinking he will find personal fulfillment there? no, he is giving his sweat and tears for the good of the family And so it goes on: sons give up their dreams to please their parents, parents give up their lives in order to please their children; pain and suffering are used to justify the one thing that should bring only LOVE.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Country, Pain

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• Sadie, I can't intervene." He turned up his palms in frustration. "I told you when we first met, this isn't an actual physical body." "Shame," I mumbled. "What?" "Nothing. Go on.

  Rick Riordan

  Frustration, Body, Firsts

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• How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?

  Tennessee Williams

  Punishment, Long, Doe

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

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• I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating in it, and eavesdropped on a pair of Shetland pony breeders. Despondency makes one hanker after lives one never led. Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they get it or they don't, will is pitted against will. "Admire me, for I am a metaphor.

  David Mitchell

  Book, Hero, Journey

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.169, Random House

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• Rose: Look at you, beaming away like you're Father Christmas! The Doctor: Who says I'm not, red-bicycle-when-you-were-twelve? Rose: [shocked] What? The Doctor: And everybody lives, Rose! Everybody lives! I need more days like this! Go on, ask me anything; I'm on fire!

  Steven Moffat

  Father, Fire, Doctors

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• Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever noticed that?" Nicole asked. "You go on websites and some girl leaves a post and if it's longer than three sentences or she's expressing her thoughts about some topic, she usually ends with, 'Sorry for the rant' or 'That may be dumb, but that's what I think.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Sorry, Thinking

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.177, Scholastic Inc.

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• I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

  Virginia Woolf

  Independent, Eye, Self

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Crutches, Rite

  1598 Claudio. Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc.1, l.334-5.

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• Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

  William Shakespeare

  Loyalty, Truth, Lasts

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.194

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• What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

  Lewis Carroll

  Mind, Doe, Body

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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