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Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence. -- Alberto Manguel
But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted. -- Rachel Cohn
If you are unknown, you can work better! Deserted soils of the mountains create the most beautiful flowers! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
More people deserted our party and we have never recovered. -- Denis Thatcher
Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like. -- George Carlin
Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal. -- Jeffrey Archer
A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands. -- Tom Felton
In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944. -- Gyorgy Ligeti
I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game. -- John Carmack
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted. -- Thomas Malthus
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It's very kind of 'Wuthering Heights' where my parents' house is, moors and deserted. It's very wild and mystic. -- Joanne Froggatt
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. -- John le Carre
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures. -- Francois Mauriac
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God. -- Lionel Blue
Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me. -- Willem Dafoe
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me. -- Anna Held
If I were packing for a deserted island, I would bring sunscreen, a water purifier, something to start a fire with, my sister, and something for protection. -- Gracie Gold
You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive. -- Benicio Del Toro
It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues. -- Philip Gibbs
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. -- Pearl S. Buck
They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. -- Luigi Barzini
That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face. -- Fay Wray
The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access. -- Matt Mullenweg
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors. -- Abraham Lincoln
My wife and I were on our honeymoon in Turks and Caicos, in the middle of nowhere, and I'm sitting on this deserted beach, and I see one lone person walking along the shore. He walks right up to me and says, 'I love 'Laser Cats,' and then just walks away. -- Bill Hader
It is never too late to strengthen the foundation of faith. There is always time. With faith in the Savior, you can repent and plead for forgiveness. There is someone you can forgive. There is someone you can thank. There is someone you can serve and lift. You can do it wherever you are and however alone and deserted you may feel. -- Henry B. Eyring
I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 A.M. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. -- Joan Didion
The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today. -- William P. Leahy
Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street. -- Harper Lee
My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War. -- Joel Kinnaman
It's very unbalanced actually, to be real.Everything's like deserted. -- Ariana Grande
I can't help telling you that I've begin to feel deserted. -- Anne Frank
Our hearts are breaking... We are lonely and deserted, sad and sick. -- Alexander Murdoch Mackay
For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
I am not without an object in life, but I feel lonely and deserted. -- Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
I have long had this premonition of a bright day and a deserted house -- Anna Akhmatova
Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to. -- E. M. Forster
What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you. -- Alexis Soyer
Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted. -- George Bernard Shaw
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted. -- Seneca the Younger
Just like the dead and deserted Moon, all things appear to be beautiful from far distance! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature. -- Seneca the Younger
Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends. -- Graham Greene
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up. -- Malachy McCourt
I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance. -- Babe Paley
Lots of you know me as a lone, hard-bitten columnist, prone to lurking on deserted rocky promontories while searching for my muse. -- Cynthia Heimel
It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true. -- Franz Kafka
Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant. -- Washington Irving
God never deserted our people. Right through the ages there were Jews. Through the ages they suffered, but it also made us strong. -- Anne Frank
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters. -- Bill Ayers
A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined. -- C. S. Lewis
For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love. -- Charles Dickens
A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments. -- George Stillman Hillard
Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party To the church doth hie! Bell, thou soundest solemnly, When, on Sabbath morning, Fields deserted lie! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The snow is falling on the deserted field of my life, and my hopes, which roam far, are afraid of becoming frozen or lost. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry. -- Marisha Pessl
This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe. -- Jane Jacobs
A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully. -- Haruki Murakami
The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster. -- William McFee
As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so doing had deserted Cubism. -- Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
Judas sold his soul for thirty pieces of silver; Faust sold his for some extra years of youth; Marilyn Monroe deserted Jesus Christ for Arthur Miller. -- Nicholas Samstag
Research has deserted the individual and entered the group. The individual worker find the problem too large, not too difficult. He must learn to work with others. -- Theobald Smith
Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain. -- Gabrielle Roy
Somebody will be upset and say I got rich and deserted my female people; No offense, but the only black woman I ever loved is my mama -- Taye Diggs
We all know about the car breaking down on a deserted road scenario. That's clichÃ©. I'm thinking more of Cider with Rosie, as in, the dark side. -- Quentin S. Crisp
Pentagon records show that at least 8,000 members of the all-volunteer U.S. Army have deserted since the Iraq war began. Hey, at least somebody has an exit strategy. -- Tina Fey
For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like a great empty tomb. -- Gustave Flaubert
Being conservative has never been regarded as old-fashioned. But if you fight for a sensible step in the right direction which others has deserted you will be branded "reactionary". -- Poul Henningsen
Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last? -- Frank Lloyd Wright
The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned -- Kathleen Raine
Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know -- Virginia Woolf
He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue. -- Horace
A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him. -- Plato
We are never less alone than when we are in the society of a single, faithful friend; never less deserted than when we are carried in tne arms of the All-Powerful. -- Francois Fenelon
The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty. -- Francisco Goya
There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there. -- Esperanza Spalding
Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Moss is selected to be the emblem of maternal love, because, like that love, it glads the heart when the winter of adversity overtakes us, and when summer friends have deserted us. -- Henrietta Dumont
I started talking about things that everybody could relate to. And that's not to say I deserted my roots, I just found a way to talk about things in a broad way. -- Gabriel Iglesias
"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said. -- Franz Kafka
When I was doing Dobie Gillis, I got blasted off to the moon with a chimp in a rocket, and I landed on a deserted tropic island. That should have told me something was coming. -- Bob Denver
Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her. -- Abraham Lincoln

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