Vagrants Quotes

• The true vagrant is the only king above all comparison.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Kings, Comparison

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• What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.

  John Berger

  Art, Sky, People

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• Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

  Mark Twain

  Atheist, Atheism, Forlorn

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 11 (1916)

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• Men and women of high professional standing were reduced to the status of vagrants, unable to find employment and forced to eat the bitter bread of public or private charity.

  Elmer Rice

  Men, Standing Alone, Has Beens

  "The Living Theatre".

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• A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

  Cato the Younger

  Men, Honest, Honest Man

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• I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time.

  Everett Ruess

  Tired, Wilderness, Enjoy

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• A vagrant is everywhere at home.

  Martial

  Home, Journey, Hiking

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• Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers

  Gilbert Ryle

  Dream, May, Pavement

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• Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

  Alex Kapranos

  Character, Wind, Kitchen

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It has to be found from moment to moment, in the smile, in the tear, under the dead leaf, in the vagrant thought, in the fullness of love.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Truth, Book

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.572, Rajpal & Sons

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• I'm not a vagrant... I'm a hobo. Big difference.

  Lee Child

  Differences, Hobos, Bigs

  "Killing Floor". Book by Lee Child, March, 1997.

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• Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Crazy, Mad

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• A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a deliverance, and life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the chains with which modern life has weighted us (under the pretext that it was offering us more liberty), then to take up the symbolic stick and bundle and get out.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Offering, Essence, Giving

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• The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees and the shadows. All his approaches are gentle and indirect. He times himself to the meandering, soliloquizing stream; he addresses himself to it as a lover to his mistress; he woos it and stays with it till he knows its hidden secrets. Where it deepens his purpose deepens; where it is shallow he is indifferent. He knows how to interpret its every glance and dimple; its beauty haunts him for days.

  John Burroughs

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.

  John Berger

  Art, Cinema, Spontaneous

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• There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Lonely, Loneliness

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 11 (1916)

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• Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mean, Support, Religion

  Devil's Dictionary (1911) p. 264

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• Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.

  Josh Billings

  Home, Rumor, Picks

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• The mind is a vagrant thing.... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Thinking, Mind, Company

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• Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way."

  Henry Van Dyke

  Work, Heart, Blessing

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• In its wild state, the truth is fluid, slippery, vagrant, scrambled, promiscuous, kaleidoscopic, and beautiful.

  Rob Brezsny

  Beautiful, Truth, States

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.167, Frog Books

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• How does it feel? I feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have to take a test you haven't studied for and you aren't wearing any clothes. And you've left your wallet at home. When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a vagrant, an animal who runs and hides. I startle old women and amaze children. I am a trick, an illusion of the highest order, so incredible that I am actually true.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Running, Dream, Children

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of burden stupefied by servitude and yet always willing to accept the slipping on of the harness. There are limits to every domain, and laws to govern every organized power. But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the non-existent horizon, and her empire is an intangible one, for her domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Animal, Law, Horizon

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• As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or her every vagrant thought, emotion, and response - the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy.

  Norman Lock

  Character, Viewpoints, Matter

  Source: therumpus.net

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• But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Empires, Horizon, Earth

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