Quotes with endless-seeming

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  • Henry Louis Mencken The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Italo Calvino The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Alice Munro The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Bee Wilson The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bob Beauprez The examples of the Obama Administration 'stimulating' jobs everywhere on the planet except here in America are endless.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Raymond Chandler The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • George Orwell The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Giordano Bruno The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobilizable..
    Giordano Bruno
    Italian philosopher and priest (1548 - 1600)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Charles Bukowski The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the ''Watchtower'' itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.
    Charles Bukowski
    American writer (1920 - 1994)
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  • Brendan Gleeson The whole point of film for me is that it's such a joy. It's such a wonder. The possibilities are literally endless in terms of what you can creatively do.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • William M. Peck There is a vast difference in some instances between what we really need and that which we think we must have, and the realization of this truth will greatly lessen the seeming discomfort in doing without.
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • Carrie Fisher There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Christopher Lasch Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
    Christopher Lasch
    American historian (1932 - 1994)
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  • Ada Louise Huxtable Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
    Ada Louise Huxtable
    American architecture critic and writer (1921 - 2013)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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