"Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents,..." - Quote by John Updike
Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.
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“I'm always looking for insights into the real Doris Day because I'm stuck with this infatuation and need to explain it to myself.”
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“I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.”
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“At the darkest moment comes the light.”
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“Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?" A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.”
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“In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to findtheir king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people.”
“May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!”
“Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.”