Top 55 Robert James Waller Quotes
#1. The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August day. In retrospect, it seems inevitable - it could not have been any other way
a case of what I call the high probability of the improbable
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#2. In a way, women were asking for men to be poets and driving, passionate lovers at the same time.
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#4. Francesca was feeling good feelings, old feelings, poetry and music feelings.
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#5. It's kind of strange- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it.
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#6. Custom brings predictability, and predictability carries its own comforts.
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#8. Neither of them spoke, they simply stood there, sending, receiving, imprinting the feel of each on the other, indelibly.
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#9. He liked words and images. "Blue" was one of his favorite words. He liked the feeling it made on his lips and tongue when he said it.
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#13. In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.
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#14. The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before.
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#15. If there's no need to climb, then there's no reason to learn how to climb.
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#16. An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually.
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#17. Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.
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#18. We're giving up free range, getting organized, feathering our emotions. Efficiency an effectiveness and all those other pieces of intellectual artifice. And with the loss of free range, the cowboy disappears, along with the mountain lion and gray wolf. There's not much room left for travelers.
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#19. The reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it's not a bad song.
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#20. Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again.
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#22. We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.
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#23. The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage
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#24. So here I am walking around with another person inside of me. Though I think I put it better the day we parted when I said there is a third person we have created from the two of us. And I am stalked now by that other entity.
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#25. The curse of modern times is the preponderance of male hormones in places where they can do long-term damage. Even if were not talking about wars between nations or assaults on nature, there's still that aggressiveness that keeps us apart from each other and the problems we need to be working on.
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#27. The marketing people are always talking about something called 'consumers'. I have this image of a fat little man in baggy Bermuda shorts, a Hawaiian shirt, and a straw hat with beer-can openers dangling from it, clutching fistfuls of dollars.
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#28. No secrets, no mystery. no mystery, no life worth rememberin'. no life worth rememberin', no life worth goin' on.
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#29. He was an animal. A graceful, hard, male animal who did nothing overtly to dominate her yet dominated her completely, in the exact way she wanted that to happen at this moment.
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#30. And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies ...
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#31. The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.
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#34. The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.
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#35. I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea
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#36. Gypsies make difficult friends for ordinary people, and he was seething of a gypsy.
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#37. People mistake shyness and reclusiveness- both of those- for arrogance. It's a convenient label slapped on by those who see only the surface of things and nothing more.
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#38. The old dreams were good dreams; the didn't work out, but I'm glad I had them.
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#39. Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted.
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#41. And, man he cried when he talked. He cried big tears, the kind it takes an old man to cry, the kind it takes a saxophone to play.
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#42. I don't just take things as given, I try to make them into something that reflects my personal consciousness, my spirit.
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#43. I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about.
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#44. Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.
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#45. ... on being somewhat antisocial-
"You have less people at your funeral but you get more reading time.
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#46. There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.
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#47. And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.
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#50. The overriding problem with our country, and our world in general, is that we are, in large part, managed by incompetents. Most of these are men who have spent their lives seeking power rather than themselves.
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#51. His eyes looked directly at her, and she felt something jump inside. The eyes, the voice, the face, the silver hair, the easy way he moved his body, old ways, disturbing ways, ways that draw you in. Ways that whisper to you in the final moment before sleep comes, when the barriers have fallen.
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#52. Talisman, Talisman, show me your secrets,
Helmsman, Helmsman, turn me for home.
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#53. For we have come by different ways to this place ... I can tell by the natural ease with which you wear fine clothes and the way your mouth moves when you speak with waiters in good restaurants. You have come the way of castles and cathedrals, of elegance and empire.
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#54. I made that horn sound like it never had before; I made it cry for all the miles and years that separated them.
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#55. Maybe now and then if it's absolutely necessary to cushion someone from a world gone too harsh and bitter.
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