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Vanished Quotes

I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I’d read before all memory of them vanished Picture Quote #1

But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I’ll admit I created Picture Quote #1

At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country Picture Quote #1

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication Picture Quote #1

The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, Look at me. Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance Picture Quote #1

The novelist’s obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian’s. The strongest fiction writers often do deep research to make the thought and utterances of lost time credible Picture Quote #1

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The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has Picture Quote #1

An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where we place our resources and our love. I am not just talking about avoiding the rat race, but about a life full of an artistic beauty - a life that has almost vanished from modern civilization, but is quite within the reach of everyone Picture Quote #1

A number of plastic surgeons are claiming that looking at John Kerry now, as opposed to a few months ago, they believe he’s had Botox shots. They claim a number of his worry lines have vanished. They haven’t vanished, just Howard Dean is wearing them now Picture Quote #1

For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand he takes his father by the beard, and turns that father’s face up to his brothers and sisters to kiss? when even the lovely selfishness of love-seeking has vanished, and the heart is absorbed in loving? Picture Quote #1

The birds have vanished down the sky. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains Picture Quote #1

After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without Picture Quote #1

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The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains Picture Quote #1

I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that’s vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared Picture Quote #1

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion Picture Quote #1

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished Picture Quote #1

I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism Picture Quote #1

I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a woman had built up in such explosive proportions that when I finally pulled the trigger, all the pressures, all the tensions, all the hatred, had just vanished, dissipated, but only for a short time Picture Quote #1

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Machines have about as much warmth as a cube of ice. And that is why the horse is still part of our lives and will live on. He was here millions of years before man came upon the earth, and if the cycle is completed, he may still be thundering across the world long after man has vanished Picture Quote #1

Write a book you’d like to read. If you wouldn’t read it, why would anybody else? Don’t write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book’s ready Picture Quote #1

There are persons who can speak no more, whose very names have vanished. Yet a name excised from the verge where it once lived still casts its sound on all who sleep there and enters their throats Picture Quote #1

Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret? Picture Quote #1

The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer, but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again Picture Quote #1

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past Picture Quote #1

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... there was another, gorier parturition, when two nations incarnated out of one. A foreigner drew a magic line on a map and called it the new border; it became a river of blood upon the earth. And the orchards, fields, factories, businesses, all on the wrong side of that line, vanished with a wave of the pale conjuror’s wand Picture Quote #1

I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn’t an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished Picture Quote #1

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed Picture Quote #1

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished Picture Quote #1

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished Picture Quote #1

Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; the vanished gods to me appear; and one to me are shame and fame Picture Quote #1

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I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I’d read before all memory of them vanished. (Vanished Quotes) But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I’ll admit I created. (Vanished Quotes) At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country. (Vanished Quotes) [The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication. (Vanished Quotes) The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, Look at me. Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance. (Vanished Quotes) The novelist’s obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian’s. The strongest fiction writers often do deep research to make the thought and utterances of lost time credible. (Vanished Quotes) The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has (Vanished Quotes) An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where we place our resources and our love. I am not just talking about avoiding the rat race, but about a life full of an artistic beauty - a life that has almost vanished from modern civilization, but is quite within the reach of everyone (Vanished Quotes) A number of plastic surgeons are claiming that looking at John Kerry now, as opposed to a few months ago, they believe he’s had Botox shots. They claim a number of his worry lines have vanished. They haven’t vanished, just Howard Dean is wearing them now (Vanished Quotes) For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand he takes his father by the beard, and turns that father’s face up to his brothers and sisters to kiss? when even the lovely selfishness of love-seeking has vanished, and the heart is absorbed in loving? (Vanished Quotes) The birds have vanished down the sky. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains (Vanished Quotes) After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without (Vanished Quotes) The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains (Vanished Quotes) I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that’s vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared (Vanished Quotes) The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion (Vanished Quotes) What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished (Vanished Quotes) I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism (Vanished Quotes) I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a woman had built up in such explosive proportions that when I finally pulled the trigger, all the pressures, all the tensions, all the hatred, had just vanished, dissipated, but only for a short time (Vanished Quotes) Machines have about as much warmth as a cube of ice. And that is why the horse is still part of our lives and will live on. He was here millions of years before man came upon the earth, and if the cycle is completed, he may still be thundering across the world long after man has vanished (Vanished Quotes) Write a book you’d like to read. If you wouldn’t read it, why would anybody else? Don’t write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book’s ready (Vanished Quotes) There are persons who can speak no more, whose very names have vanished. Yet a name excised from the verge where it once lived still casts its sound on all who sleep there and enters their throats (Vanished Quotes) Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret? (Vanished Quotes) The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer, but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again (Vanished Quotes) And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past (Vanished Quotes) ... there was another, gorier parturition, when two nations incarnated out of one. A foreigner drew a magic line on a map and called it the new border; it became a river of blood upon the earth. And the orchards, fields, factories, businesses, all on the wrong side of that line, vanished with a wave of the pale conjuror’s wand (Vanished Quotes) I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn’t an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished (Vanished Quotes) The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed (Vanished Quotes) I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished (Vanished Quotes) Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished (Vanished Quotes) Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; the vanished gods to me appear; and one to me are shame and fame (Vanished Quotes)

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