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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Planet of Exile / Mankind

    But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks through the resignation in which you have lived for days.
    book-quotehoperesignation

  2. Edith Wharton _ The Ghost Stories of Edith

    His life, for years past, had been mainly a succession of resigned adaptations, and he had learned, before dealing practically with his embarrassments, to extract from most of them a small tribute of amusement.{"The Triumph Of The Night"}
    book-quoteresignationembarrassment

  3. Edith Wharton _ The Age of Innocence

    Now, as he reviewed his past, he saw into what a deep rut he had sunk. The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else... There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level, and surveys the long windings of destiny.
    book-quotegrowthresignation

  4. Michael Cunningham _ The Hours

    She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.
    book-quoteregretresignationennui

  5. John Updike _ Rabbit Is Rich

    He sees now that he is rich that these were the {shore} outings of the poor, ending in sunburn and stomach upset. Pop liked crabcakes and baked oysters but could never eat them without throwing up. When the Model A was tucked into the garage and little Mim tucked into bed Harry could hear his father vomiting in a far corner of the yard. He never complained about vomiting or about work, they were just things you had to do, one more regularly than the other.
    book-quoteresignationvacationclass

  6. Salman Rushdie _ Joseph Anton: A Memoir

    When he resigned his boss thought he was asking for more money. 'No,' he said. 'I'm just going to try to be a full-time writer.' Oh, his boss said, you want a more money. 'No, really,' he said. 'This isn't a negotiation. I'm just giving you my thirty days' notice. Thirty-one days from now, I won't be coming in.' Hmm, his boss replied. I don't think we can give you as much money as .
    book-quoteresignationraises

  7. P.G. Wodehouse _ Mike at Wrykyn

    The true philosopher is a man who says "All right," and goes to sleep in his armchair.
    book-quotephilosophyresignation

  8. Stephen King _ The Long Walk

    Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after both of his feet cramped up at the same time, you remember reading about that? Look at Olson, he's worn out but he keeps going. That goddam Barkovitch is running on high-octane hate and he just keeps going and he's as fresh as a daisy. I don't think I can do that. I'm not tired -not really tired- yet. But I will be." The scar stood out on the side of his haggard face as he looked ahead into the darkness "And I think... when I get tired enough... I think I'll just sit down
    book-quoteresignationpeter-mcvriestiredness

  9. Samuel Beckett _ Molloy

    It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.
    book-quoteresignationdestination

  10. Wallace Stegner _ Angle of Repose

    What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down. I suppose it is; and yet ... I thought when I began, and still think, that there was another angle in all those years when she was growing old and older and very old, and Grandfather was matching her year for year, a separate line that did not intersect with hers. They were vertical people, they lived by pride, and it is only by the ocular illusion of perspective that they can be said to have met. But he had not been dead two months when she lay down and died too, and that may indicate that at that absolute vanishing point they did intersect. They had intersected for years, for more than he especially would ever admit.
    book-quotelovemarriageperspective

  11. Ian McEwan _ Solar

    He saw it for the first time: on the day he died he would be wearing unmatching socks, there would be unanswered e-mails, and in the hovel he called home there would still be shirts missing cuff buttons, a malfunctioning light in the hall, and unpaid bills, uncleared attics, dead flies, friends waiting for a reply and lovers he had not owned up to.
    book-quoteresignationprocrastination

  12. Philip K. Dick _ The Man in the High Castle

    Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small… and you will escape the jealousy of the great.
    book-quoteresignationsubjugation
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