Quotes of: Absolutely-not Keyword

There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing a gateway to madness.

Something Different

Someone's forgiveness will not heal you; condemnation or absolution is their test, not yours.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for long enough to conceive gratitude.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The world is essentially bipolar: driven to extremes but defined by flux. Saints are always just a stumble away from sinners. Nothing is absolute, not even death

Manic: A Memoir

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

Mother Night

Her brain said, he’s like a brother to you. Her body rejected that notion absolutely. Her heart was confused as hell.

Mad About You

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

North and South

The realm of liberation is absolutely incommensurable with the relativities of higher and lower, better and worse, gain and loss, since these are all disadvantages of the ego.

Nature, Man and Woman

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

Life of Pi

Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.

The Little Silkworm

You must firmly, absolutely and ruthlessly protect your safety and sanity.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomimes.

The Sea, the Sea

All I got was the news that he'd married an absolute honey, and an admonition to eat my heart out.

The Seduction Stakes

... until it had acquired the strength to create in my mind a fresh example of absolute, unproductive beauty...

Swann's Way

Because it is so scatterbrained and has absolutely no charts and graphs, I'm actually quite surprised the Bible sells.

Searching for God Knows What

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

Thoreau Journal 9

There can only be absolute freedom or none at all. And if you can’t have either, then maybe it’s better to keep your eyes shut.

A Tooth For a Fang

A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy

A Prayer for Owen Meany

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same. Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.

On Violence

In the next place, wonderful as it seems in a sexual world, the Martians were absolutely without sex, and therefore without any of the tumultuous emotions that arise...

The War of the Worlds