81 Quotes About Caves

  • Author Ron Rash
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    Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An 'idea,' especially one adhered to from start to finish, can be disastrous for a compelling piece of fiction.

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  • Author Gloria Swanson
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    The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.

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  • Author Huston Smith
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    Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

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  • Author Jerry Saltz
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    Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.

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  • Author John Stephens
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    The ceiling was curved, giving the space a cave-like feel, and it was either very large, very small, or sort of normal-sized.

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  • Author William Stone
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    Caves are whimsical things, and geology on a local scale is random and unpredictable.

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  • Author Andrea Thompson
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    I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that

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  • Author Gladys Taber
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    November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.

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