Explain Quotes
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.
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No, this trick won't work. The same trick does not work twice. How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
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The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being.
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Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.
