Trevanian Quotes

#1. The Trevanian Buff is a strange and wonderful creature: an outsider, a natural elitist, not so much a cynic as an idealist mugged by reality, not just one of those who march to a different drummer, but the solo drummer in a parade of one.

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#2. He was the worst kind of confident. Not only was he shamelessly aware of his appeal, he was so used to women throwing themselves at him that he regarded my cool demeanor as refreshing instead of an insult.

Jamie McGuire

#3. However, little by little, I am coming to the view that what I mistook for humility was, in fact, an accurate evaluation of your worth.

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#4. We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious.

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#5. Indeed, my first interest in the pioneer work of Doctor Freud sprang, not from a concern for persons wounded in their collisions with reality, but from my personal curiosity about the nature of creativity and the springs of motivation. So

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#6. In a city where public executions,duels, fights, magical feuds, and strange events regularly punctuated the daily round, the inhabitants had brought the profession of interested bystander to a peak of perfection. They were, to a man, highly skilled gawpers.

Terry Pratchett

#7. When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?

Sue Monk Kidd

#8. Pass through knowledge to arrive at simplicity.

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#9. It is revealing of the American culture that its prototypic hero is the cowboy: an uneducated, boorish, Victorian migrant agricultural worker.

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#10. I can't move. My mind's like a dance hall fire, a crowd of terrified voices all screaming instructions at once.

Alan Moore

#11. Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

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#12. Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.

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#13. Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'? Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies, and beer. Hana: I daren't ask what a 'hush puppy' is. Hel: Don't.

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#14. Sorry, you're on the ride now, and there's no getting off in the middle.

J.R. Ward

#15. The first and foremost sign of new birth in anyone is that he knows God intuitively, for his spirit has been quickened.

Watchman Nee

#16. Amidst all the criticisms and prejudgement in life, we should strive to do good in return; however small, instead of just turning your back against the world.

Warren Cassell Jr.

#17. Why did I submit myself to the butchery of the trenches when I might have served in the echelons as a medical officer? Even the most rudimentary knowledge of Doctor Freud would suggest that I was pursuing a death wish

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#18. Obtuseness was its own defense

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#19. Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience - twenty times.

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#20. This seemed far-fetched, but then again, he was holding my hand, so clearly miracles were possible.

Inara Scott

#21. The rope connecting two men on a mountain is more than nylon protection; it is an organic thing that transmits subtle messages of intent and disposition from man to man; it is an extension of the tactile senses, a psychological bond, a wire along which currents of communication flow.

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#22. But you're the best cook ever, and I'm the best eater ever. We're perfect for each other. Tank pouted.

Lynn Hagen

#23. And he recalled the ancient adage: Who must do the harsh things? He who can.

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#24. I am yours
and I will whisper it
and shout it
and write it
and carve it into my skin
if only blood
would tell you
the truth you need to see.
I am yours
and I have never
been anyone's before.

Tyler Knott Gregson

#25. Niceness is an overrated quality. Being nice is how a man pays his way into a party if he hasn't the guts to be tough or the class to be brilliant.

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#26. No, I don't want to give my people sticks. I want to give them eyes.

Rajneesh

#27. Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance only the fiction by means of which the tender-minded negotiate their lust?

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#28. There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.

Ben Bradlee

#29. You know, people come to Italy for all sorts of reasons, but when they sat, it's for the same two things."
"What?"
"Love and gelato.

Jenna Evans Welch

#30. No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.

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#31. I have two bikes: a classic 1978 Yamaha SR500 and a more modern Suzuki SV650. I've been into cars and bikes since I was tiny.

Thomas Sangster

#32. Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad.

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#33. In seeming contradiction of physical laws, time is heavy only when it is empty.

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