Nonsense Quotes - Page 38

• It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fear, Rain, Farewell

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.75, Hamilton Books

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• Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Memories, Race, Years

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• A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

  Rex Stout

  Men, Library, May

  Rex Stout (2010). “The League of Frightened Men”, p.22, Bantam

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• There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Life, Wish, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman

  Laurie R. King

  Men, Accepting, Well Dressed

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• The people of Ankh-Morpork had a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to entertainment, and while they were looking forward to seeing a dragon slain, they'd be happy to settle instead for seeing someone being baked alive in his own armour. You didn't get the chance every day to see someone baked alive in their own armour. It would be something for the children to remember.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Dragons, People

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• A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

  Tom Stoppard

  Men

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• It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Existence, Outrageous

  Thomas Ligotti (2009). “Teatro Grottesco”, p.53, Random House

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• People will think you're courting me.' 'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women.

  Julia Quinn

  Thinking, People, Court

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• Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions, on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone. He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of "nonsense". But they had been wrong.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Teacher, Distance, Believe

  "Ceremony". Book by Leslie Marmon Silko, 1977.

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• You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear you. You were speaking in a language I did not understand. Never, never, I can conceive of a love which is able to foresee its own termination. Love is its own eternity. Love is in every moment of its being: all time. It is the only glimpse we are permitted of what eternity is. So I did not hear you. The words were nonsense.

  Thornton Wilder

  Love, Forever, Age

  Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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• It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Beautiful, Thinking, Forever

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• You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of course, silly people would say to babies, 'You're so sweet I could gobble you all up!', but that sort of nonsense seemed less funny when it was said by a man in war paint who owned more than one skull. Daphne, cursed with good manners, settled for, 'It's very kind of you to say so.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baby, Sweet, Clever

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• You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wind, Civilization, Ships

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• Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.

  Orson Scott Card

  Ender, Said, Plans

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.452, Tor Science Fiction

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• Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead. This meme won't die. People are still convinced that new ebooks are going to be priced at ten cents, and writers will starve, and this will cause a second Great Depression where banks will close and people will be forced to buy Kindles with food stamps, and then the earth will enter another ice age where all the bunnies will freeze to death.

  J.A. Konrath

  Race, August, Ice

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• Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hurt, Practice, League

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.264, Penguin

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• In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little... But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Believe, Reading, Different

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.158, Ultramarine Publishing

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• I don't believe in school prayer. I think it's total nonsense...who is the teacher there that is going to have them pray? And is the teacher going to be Catholic or Mormon or Episcopalian or what? It just causes all sorts of problems. And what are the kids praying about anyway? Does it really matter, does praying in school...what are you doing it for? The whole thing just opens up all sorts of elements of discussion. I think it's crazy.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Teacher, Prayer, Crazy

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• The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Wall, Couple, Past

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.177, Macmillan

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• Valkyrie dialed Skulduggery's number and he picked up. 'Hey,' she said, 'It's me.' Skulduggery paused. 'No it's not. If it were me, then I'd be talking to myself, and I don't do that any more. I certainly don't RING myself. That's one of the first signs of madness, and if it's not, it should be.' She sighed. 'Are you finished talking nonsense?' 'I haven't talked nonsense all morning. I miss it.

  Derek Landy

  Morning, Talking, Numbers

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• This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And with it all, what conceit! What pretension!

  Anton Chekhov

  Art, Stupid, Reading

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• It wasn’t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread. Genies didn’t burst from lamps, and talking fish didn’t bargain for their lives. In all the world, there was only one place humans could get wishes: Brimstone’s shop. And there was only one currency he accepted. It wasn’t gold, or riddles, or kindness, or any other fairy-tale nonsense, and no, it wasn’t souls, either. It was weirder than any of that. It was teeth.

  Laini Taylor

  Kindness, Talking, Waiting

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• Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.

  Louis L'Amour

  Games, Long, People

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.11, Bantam

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• I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

  Robert Graves

  Book, Thinking, People

  Robert Graves, Richard Francis (2000). “I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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