Paul Murray Quotes

• Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.

  Paul Murray

  Crush, Expectations, Grace

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• To believe in explanations is good, because it means you may believe also that beneath the chaotic, mindless jumble of everything, beneath the horrible disjunction you feel at every moment between you and all you are not, there dwells in the universe a secret harmony, a coherence and rightness like a balanced equation that’s out of reach for now but some day will reveal itself in its entirety.

  Paul Murray

  Believe, Mean, Secret

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• Some bruises you wear like badges of honour: when you got it playing rugby, or quad racing, or falling off something while drunk, no opportunity is lost to show off a good contusion. A bruise inflicted by someone else, however, is a whole other story: it's like a big flashing arrow marking you out as punchable, and before long there'll be boys queuing up to add bruises of their own, as if they'd just been waiting for somebody to show them it could be done.

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  Fall, Opportunity, Boys

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• History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn’t fit. And often that is quite a lot.

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  Different, Stories, Way

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• Gradually the awful truth dawns on you: that Santa Claus was just the tip of the iceberg - that your future will not be the rollercoaster ride you'd imagined, that the world occupied by your parents, the world of washing the dishes, going to the dentist, weekend trips to the DIY superstore to buy floor tiles, is actually largely what people mean when they speak of 'life'.

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  Life, Mean, Weekend

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• Since when has love ever looked for reasons, or evidence? Why would love bow to the reality of things, when it creates a reality of its own, so much more vivid, wherein everything resonates to the key of the heart?

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  Heart, Reality, Keys

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• El logro de la madurez, psicológicamente hablando, podría decirse que es la comprensión y aceptación de que sencillamente no podemos vivir independientemente del mundo, por lo que debemos vivir dentro de él, con los compromisos que ello pueda conllevar.

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  Acceptance, Maturity, Achievement

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• Sometimes the reason we do not see the answer is that we are looking too closely at the question.

  Paul Murray

  Answers, Sometimes, Reason

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• Oyendo hablar a la gente, se diría que nadie ha hecho nunca otra cosa que amarse. Pero cuando lo buscas, cuando buscas ese amor del que siempre habla todo el mundo, no lo encuentras por ninguna parte; y cuando alguien busca amor en ti, descubres que no eres capaz de dárselo, que no eres capaz de sostener la confianza y los sueños que quieren que sostengas, como tampoco podrías acunar agua en tus brazos.

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  Dream, Thinking, Talking

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• Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they all were part of one big giant superstory, except it got broken up into a jillion different pieces, that's why no story on its own makes any sense, and so what you have to do in a life is try and weave it back together, my story into your story, our stories into all the other people's we know, until you've got something that to God or whoever might look like a letter, or even a whole word.

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  Numbers, People, Broken

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• Never frown even when ur sad, coz u never know whose falling in love with ur smile!

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  Falling In Love, Fall, Knows

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• Ignoring is what you are supposed to do with bullies, so they get bored and leave you alone. But the problem in school is that they don't get bored, because whatever else there is to do is more boring still.

  Paul Murray

  School, Bored, Bully

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• Too much sparkle can detract from the focal point of the painting, so I blend some areas to tone down the look of the pastels in less important areas.

  Paul Murray

  Past, Important, Looks

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