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Link	Quote	Tags	Author
f62b5d7	When I got across, I looked back and saw Tyson giving Grover a piggyback ride (or was it a goatyback ride?).	tyson percy-jackson question	Rick Riordan
84ef3d1	"Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means."	meaning humor life question	Douglas Adams
f1844a5	I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.	siddhartha knowledge question	Hermann Hesse
71cd389	The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.	object beautiful question artist creation	James Joyce
80c8422	Have all beautiful things sad destinies?	beauty destiny question sad	Jean Rhys
c5c7151	The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next.	who-you-are victim dreamer visionary question	Jodi Picoult
f1ffefb	A little damage makes people more interesting, right?	interesting question	Catherine Hapka
bc93fc3	This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.	predestination labyrinth question	Neal Stephenson
16af53b	If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?	leprechaun question	David Sedaris
945d6ed	"I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been: "It was God's will that I should." And to you moderns, who perhaps do not believe as I do, I will say, "In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny."	writing destiny god life chain-of-life the-scarlet-pimpernel god-s-will question	Emmuska Orczy
17d5d2f	Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?	philosophical life question	Lewis Carroll
af05817	"I learned a lot about systems of oppression and how they can be blind to one another by talking to black men. I was once talking about gender and a man said to me, "Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being?" This type of question is a way of silencing a person's specific experiences. Of course I am a human being, but there are particular things that happen to me in the world because I am a woman. This same man, by the way, would often talk about his experience as a black man. (To which I should probably have responded, "Why not your experiences as a man or as a human being? Why a black man?")" --	experiences woman human-being world blind silencing talking gender question systems oppression	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
636533b	Ask a burning question, get a burning answer	question	Lynda Barry
d7f6215	"You mentioned . . . one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What . . . is the other?" "The other is the composition of the continuum, or: what is space?"	space question	Neal Stephenson
980006d	"You're terrible at this whole 'tell me whatever I want to know' thing." My hand goes to the crossbow, but I don't pick it up. He sighs. "Just ask me something. Ask about my tail. Don't you want to see it?" He raises his brows."	truth-telling double-entendre double-meaning faeries question suggestive tail tale	Holly Black
2f9c15c	Os livros sao escritos devido a anos virados do avesso por ideias que nao nos libertam ate serem escritas e, ate mesmo entao, a escrita e o ultimo recurso, um resgate desesperado que pagamos para que a vida nos seja devolvida.	work success job question	Richard Bach
b12481c	...There's no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?	ursula-k-le-guin what-to-do right-and-wrong question	Ursula K. Le Guin
aa25bdb	Was she in any way like us? thinks Tony. Or, to put it the other way around: Are we in any way like her?	margaret-atwood the-robber-bride similarities musing questioning question	Margaret Atwood
d716fd0	As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.	question journey lunatic	Tahir Shah
da1b5b6	"She shakily rushed towards the car to find Alecto casually standing beside it, smoking a cigarette and staring fixedly on the radio as it played the song 'Draggin' the Line' by Tommy James, his expression thoughtful. "What are you thinking about?" Mandy questioned. "Wouldn't the world be a very loud place to live if we said everything we thought?" Alecto asked quietly."	live mind world music song dragging tommy-james noisy cigarette line place quiet radio thinking question loud noise thought smoking	Rebecca McNutt
4c33efa	"Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. "And in the face of it there were thousands of little holes, little what-you-call-'ems..." "Alcoves," Kennit supplied in an almost dreamy voice. "I call them alcoves, Gankis. As would you, if you could speak your own mother tongue."	funny answer arm blank captain cliff query response title tongue witty word language point mother sarcastic question voice wit name sarcasm	Robin Hobb
e721f88	"One of Mom's favorite passages from Gilead was: "This is an important thing, which I have told many people, and which my father told me, and which his father told him. When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, what is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation?"	question	Will Schwalbe
606252a	The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.	world infinity intellect question math	Simon Singh
cb1862e	There was no dignified way to answer a question about your underwear.	underwear question	Tom Perrotta
2e1cc16	He believed he was in love with her, if he knew what love was.	love question	Tim LaHaye
fc0f4c5	Do you still play the accordian?	question	Markus Zusak
30ab92b	The question ocasionally invents the answer. (142)	question	Gregory Maguire
ad0a7e4	A meaningless question has only meaningless answers.	meaning belief question	Ursula K. Le Guin

When I got across, I looked back and saw Tyson giving Grover a piggyback ride (or was it a goatyback ride?).

Rick Riordan

84ef3d1

"Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means."

meaning humor life question

Douglas Adams

f1844a5

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

siddhartha knowledge question

Hermann Hesse

71cd389

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

object beautiful question artist creation

James Joyce

80c8422

Have all beautiful things sad destinies?

beauty destiny question sad

Jean Rhys

c5c7151

The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next.

who-you-are victim dreamer visionary question

Jodi Picoult

f1ffefb

A little damage makes people more interesting, right?

interesting question

Catherine Hapka

bc93fc3

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

predestination labyrinth question

Neal Stephenson

16af53b

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

leprechaun question

David Sedaris

945d6ed

"I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been: "It was God's will that I should." And to you moderns, who perhaps do not believe as I do, I will say, "In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny."

writing destiny god life chain-of-life the-scarlet-pimpernel god-s-will question

Emmuska Orczy

17d5d2f

Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?

philosophical life question

Lewis Carroll

af05817

"I learned a lot about systems of oppression and how they can be blind to one another by talking to black men. I was once talking about gender and a man said to me, "Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being?" This type of question is a way of silencing a person's specific experiences. Of course I am a human being, but there are particular things that happen to me in the world because I am a woman. This same man, by the way, would often talk about his experience as a black man. (To which I should probably have responded, "Why not your experiences as a man or as a human being? Why a black man?")" --

experiences woman human-being world blind silencing talking gender question systems oppression

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

636533b

Ask a burning question, get a burning answer

question

Lynda Barry

d7f6215

"You mentioned . . . one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What . . . is the other?" "The other is the composition of the continuum, or: what is space?"

space question

Neal Stephenson

980006d

"You're terrible at this whole 'tell me whatever I want to know' thing." My hand goes to the crossbow, but I don't pick it up. He sighs. "Just ask me something. Ask about my tail. Don't you want to see it?" He raises his brows."

truth-telling double-entendre double-meaning faeries question suggestive tail tale

Holly Black

2f9c15c

Os livros sao escritos devido a anos virados do avesso por ideias que nao nos libertam ate serem escritas e, ate mesmo entao, a escrita e o ultimo recurso, um resgate desesperado que pagamos para que a vida nos seja devolvida.

work success job question

Richard Bach

b12481c

...There's no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?

ursula-k-le-guin what-to-do right-and-wrong question

Ursula K. Le Guin

aa25bdb

Was she in any way like us? thinks Tony. Or, to put it the other way around: Are we in any way like her?

margaret-atwood the-robber-bride similarities musing questioning question

Margaret Atwood

d716fd0

As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.

question journey lunatic

Tahir Shah

da1b5b6

"She shakily rushed towards the car to find Alecto casually standing beside it, smoking a cigarette and staring fixedly on the radio as it played the song 'Draggin' the Line' by Tommy James, his expression thoughtful. "What are you thinking about?" Mandy questioned. "Wouldn't the world be a very loud place to live if we said everything we thought?" Alecto asked quietly."

live mind world music song dragging tommy-james noisy cigarette line place quiet radio thinking question loud noise thought smoking

Rebecca McNutt

4c33efa

"Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. "And in the face of it there were thousands of little holes, little what-you-call-'ems..." "Alcoves," Kennit supplied in an almost dreamy voice. "I call them alcoves, Gankis. As would you, if you could speak your own mother tongue."

funny answer arm blank captain cliff query response title tongue witty word language point mother sarcastic question voice wit name sarcasm

Robin Hobb

e721f88

"One of Mom's favorite passages from Gilead was: "This is an important thing, which I have told many people, and which my father told me, and which his father told him. When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, what is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation?"

question

Will Schwalbe

606252a

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.

world infinity intellect question math