Lit Quotes - Page 18

• The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

  Tana French

  Historical, Fiction, Mystery

  "Tana French: I'm haunted by Ireland's ghost estates" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2012.

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• I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.

  Leonard Cohen

  Relationship, Jealous, Filled Up

  Song: One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong, Album: Songs of Leonard Cohen, 1967

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• What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to play in their family's garden, cycle home in the dark with the stars and moon illuminating their route, walk down through the woods to the river, lie on their backs on hot July days in the long grass, or watch cockleburs, lit by morning sun, like bumblees quivering on harp wires? What then?

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Morning, Stars

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

  Doris Lessing

  Desire, Shifting, Youth

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• God's love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than being lit, it really gives its light to the earth. And because the earth really receives light from the sun, it is really transformed every morning from darkness to light. Just as objectively, because God is love, God really gives love to us. And because we receive real life-changing love from God, we are really transformed from darkness to light.

  Peter Kreeft

  God, Morning, Real

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.20, Ignatius Press

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• When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime.

  Aeschylus

  Sleep, Eye, Soul

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• Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy-to-find bathrooms. But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other.

  Joel Spolsky

  Beer, Ugly, Coyotes

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• Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than to peek into the delivery room when the light was on. From the dormitory, they could hear Dr. Larch's reading voice. Although Candy held tightly to his hand, Homer was inclined to hurry - in order not to miss the bedtime story.

  John Irving

  Reading, Light, Hands

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• My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Brother, Desire, Taste

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.110, Macmillan

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• She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between her legs and all around her. The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this. Without words, the Führer was nothing. There would be no limping prisoners, no need for consolation or wordly tricks to make us feel better. What good were the words? She said it audibly now, to the orange-lit room. "What good are the words?

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Feel Better, Orange

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.387, Random House

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• I glanced at Radu. "What, exactly is Louis-Cesare's problem?'. [..] Suddenly a speculative gleam lit his eyes. It made me nervous. 'He tends to be very protective of women,"he said thoughtfully. "You're a woman Dory." "Thank you for pointing that out. But I didn't think dhampirs qualified." Radu smirked. "It appears you've been upgraded.

  Karen Chance

  Eye, Thinking, Exactly Is

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• If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?

  William Golding

  Different, Faces, Ifs

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.62, Penguin

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• Listen! If stars are lit It means there is someone who needs it, It means someone wants them to be, That someone deems those specks of spit Magnificent!

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Stars, Mean, Needs

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, “Listen!”

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• It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseeen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious which is all that this psycho-analysis of Freud seems to know, - and of that it knows only a few ill-lit corners, - is no more than a restricted and very inferior portion of the subliminal whole... to begin by opening up the lower subconscious, risking to raise up all that is foul or obscure in it, is to go out of one's way to invite trouble.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Men, Opening Up, Secret

  "The Perennial Quest for a Psychology with a Soul: An Inquiry Into the Relevance of Sri Aurobindo's Metaphysical Yoga Psychology in the Context of Ken Wilber's Integral Psychology". Book by Joseph Virtue, 2002.

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• I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.

  David Foster Wallace

  Philosophy, Use, Four

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• I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

  Richard Brautigan

  Tired, Night, Light

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Stars, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1876). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.152

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• In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.

  Yann Martel

  Teacher, Good Luck, Men

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• I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much written for them.

  Tucker Max

  Thinking, Guy, Want

  "Memoir of Bad Boy Tucker Max's Outlandish Exploits". "The Big Story With John Gibson", www.foxnews.com. May 10, 2006.

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• I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.

  Debra Winger

  Scene, Walks, Ready

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

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• Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Civilization, Rubble, Vulture

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• Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

  H. G. Wells

  Fire, Leader, Ashes

  "Kgalema Motlanthe's Farewell Speech". www.iol.co.za. March 12, 2014.

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• I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, New York, Humorous

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.158, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.

  Plato

  Stars, Eye, Heaven

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• Baba's words and actions have lit the lamp of love in the hearts of devotees and they will always remember him for the good things he has done.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Heart, Done, Lamps

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