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Setting Of The Awakening Quotes By Annie Dillard

A child is asleep. Her private life unwinds inside skin and skull; only as she sheds childhood, first one decade and then another, can she locate the actual, historical stream, see the setting of her dreaming private life - the nation, the city, the neighborhood, the house where the family lives - as an actual project under way, a project living people willed, and made well or failed, and are still making, herself among them. I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers. — Annie Dillard

Setting Of The Awakening Quotes By Naomi Novik

And to crown the whole, you must needs come back and make a martyr of yourself, so now anyone who cares a farthing for your life must watch you hanged; that is, if they do not decide to make a spectacle of it and draw and quarter you in the fine old style. I suppose you would go to it like Harrison, 'as cheerful as any man could do in that condition.' Well, I should not be damned cheerful, and neither should anyone else who loved you, and some of them can knock down half of London Town if they should choose. — Naomi Novik

Setting Of The Awakening Quotes By Dick Francis

If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said (as he had been invited five or six times that morning), 'you go into the sitting-room and you say, "Oh, what an attractive room!" even if you think it's hideous. — Dick Francis

Setting Of The Awakening Quotes By Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Setting Of The Awakening Quotes By Eugene Ionesco

The fact that I despise religion doesn't mean I don't esteem it highly. — Eugene Ionesco

Setting Of The Awakening Quotes By Philippe Quinault

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
[Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage
D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.] — Philippe Quinault

Setting Of The Awakening Quotes By Joshua Cohen

The larger your audience, the smaller your vocabulary and range of referents - the fewer your means of expression. You can't rely on the luxury of intimacy. — Joshua Cohen

Setting Of The Awakening Quotes By George Tyrrell

Physically, men are of the same species; spiritually each is a species apart — George Tyrrell

Setting Of The Awakening Quotes By Nate Lowman

Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse. — Nate Lowman

Setting Of The Awakening Quotes By Anna Akhmatova

No one else was as close and as open,
No one else so boiled my blood,
Even he, who consigned me to torment,
Even he, who caressed and forgot. — Anna Akhmatova

Setting Of The Awakening Quotes By Robert Smith

Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage. — Robert Smith

Setting Of The Awakening Quotes By Emily St. John Mandel

Is it possible that somewhere there are ships setting out? If there are again towns with streetlights, if there are symphonies and newspapers, then what else might this awakening world contain? Perhaps vessels are setting out even now, traveling toward or away from him, steered by sailors armed with maps and knowledge of the stars, driven by need or perhaps simply by curiosity; whatever became of the countries on the other side? If nothing else, it's pleasant to consider the possibility. He likes the thought of ships moving over the water, toward another world just out of sight. — Emily St. John Mandel

Setting Of The Awakening Quotes By Michael Scott

A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all — Michael Scott

Setting Of The Awakening Quotes By CeeLo Green

I have a hell-fire temper. — CeeLo Green