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• God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in God

  Tags in Distant, Books - Reading, Books

• My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Distant, Strange

• One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Distant, Giving

•  I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Closer, Distant

• Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

  Iris Murdoch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Continuous, Distant

• I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.

  George Murray

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Self, Myth, Distant

• A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

  Emil Cioran

  Topics in Enemy

  Tags in Distant

• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  Walter Lippmann

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Distant, Complex
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  The past feels distant even when it’s near and the future seems assured even though it isn’t.

  Unknown

  Topics in Future, Past

  Tags in Feels, Distant

• Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

  Topics in Irish Proverbs

  Tags in Distant

• It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

  Arthur Eddington

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Competent, Distant, Hope, Sound, Judgment

• Death is a distant rumor to the young.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Rumor, Distant, Young

• Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.

  Terry Brooks

  Tags in Distant, Alligators