Starks Quotes - Page 11

• Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

  Ann Patchett

  Disappointment, Writing, Heart

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

  John Stark

  Sleep, Night, Enemy

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• I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Want, Lenses

  Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

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• Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Writing, Story Writers, Details

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• The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.

  Amiri Baraka

  Moving, Reality, Blue

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1984). “Daggers and javelins: essays, 1974-1979”, William Morrow & Co

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• Being in the nude isn't a disgrace unless you're being promiscuous about it. After all, when God created Adam and Eve, they were stark naked. And in the Garden of Eden, God was probably naked as a jaybird too!

  Bettie Page

  Garden, Eden, Naked

  FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Aug 17, 2012

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• Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

  John Stark

  Military, Sleep, Patriotic

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• It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.

  Sarah Dessen

  Ugly, Lasts, Moments

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.116, Penguin

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• Your right. We do spend a lot of time worrying about our looks, instead of focusing on what's inside. - Raven The artist has the power to capture that. To express what he thinks about the subject. I thought that was much more romantic then seeing myself in a cold, stark glass reflection. - Alexander

  Ellen Schreiber

  Artist, Reflection, Thinking

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• God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by sweet enticement. He always acts with unfailing respect for the freedom and independence that we possess.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Sweet, Long, Independence

  Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain

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• There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.

  John Green

  Differences, People, Genius

  John Green (2006). “An Abundance of Katherines”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Choices, Humanity

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.27, Penguin

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