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Quotes About Separation

The type of work I do, which is often called 'Pop Surrealism,' is very separate from Gagosian and Mary Boone type of gallery art.
~ Molly Crabapple
My lungs are thick with the smoke of your absence.
~ Raymond Carver
She won't give him back his look.
~ Raymond Carver
I crack the other egg. Surely we have diminished one another.
~ Raymond Carver
È un pezzo ormai che mi manchi. Mi sei mancato tanto che ormai è come se ti fossi perso, non so come spiegarlo. Ti ho perso. Non sei più mio.
~ Raymond Carver
If you liked a book, don't meet the author.
~ Raymond Chandler
When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and ran back into the house, leaving the doorway empty [...] I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again. (p. 262)
~ Raymond Chandler
To say good-bye is to die a little.
~ Raymond Chandler
Do the two girls run around together? I think not. I think they go their separate and slightly divergent roads to perdition. Vivian is spoiled, exacting, smart and quite ruthless. Carmen is a child who likes to pull wings off flies. Neither of them has any more moral sense than a cat. Neither have I. No Sternwood ever had. Proceed.
~ Raymond Chandler
To say goodbye is to die a little" - The Long Goodbye
~ Raymond Chandler
The first divorce is the only tough one. After that it's merely a problem in economics.
~ Raymond Chandler
What is life for?' he asked rhetorically. 'It's a way to evolve thought. And what is thought for? It's a way to be aware, a stage between the physical and the spiritual. And time? it's a good way to keep things separated.
~ Raymond E. Feist
I am not your brother. My brother Morvai died the night you were created, eledhel. And you know all that I have been since the day you left, as I know all that you have been.'.
~ Raymond E. Feist
It was intolerable what lay hidden within another, intolerable tat you could not divide one person into another with no remainder.
~ Rebecca Goldstein
Heartbreak is a little like falling in love, in the way it charges everything with a kind of incandescence, as though the beloved has stepped away and your gaze now rests with all the same intensity on all the items of the view that close-up person blocked.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Some things we have only as they remain lost, some things are not lost only as long as they are distant.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Hay cosas que solo poseemos si están perdidas, hay cosas que no se pierden si de ellas nos separa la distancia.
~ Rebecca Solnit
L'indifferenza significa che gli occhi non hanno più bisogno di cercarsi, le mani di protendersi; né le labbra di unirsi, perché è un'unione in cui non ci si accorge più della separazione dei corpi.
~ Rebecca West
But I think mebbe it was himself he blamed most. 'It 'ud be different if only she'd come back,' he'd say. 'I'd never let her out of my sight.
~ Reginald Hill
No one ever told you what to do when love went away. It was always about capturing love, and keeping love. Not about watching it walk out the door to die alone rather than in your arms.
~ Rene Denfeld
The separation of "church and state" of which America is so proud was established in Islam fourteen centuries ago, when it was decided that no Caliph would have religious authority over the community.
~ Reza Aslan
An dieser Stelle gingen Billy Halleck und die Wahrheit getrennte Wege.
~ Richard Bachmann
I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.
~ Richard Brautigan