C.E. Murphy Quotes

Alan Alexander Milne

C. E. Murphy is an American-born author, based in Ireland, who writes in the fantasy and romance genres.

“A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered mind.” (C. E. Murphy quotes)
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“All thinking things fear. Sentience, perhaps, is facing that fear and conquering it rather than succumbing. A tiger will drown in a tar pit, but a man who can clear his thoughts may survive.”
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“But maybe, just maybe, I was who and where and what I needed to be. Maybe all the prices that had been paid were nothing more than part of high cost of living.”
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“I can tell the difference between a Corvette and a Mustang. It was the woman sitting on the hood that got me flustered.”
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“I had come to regard pride as the defining characteristic of a gentleman, when indeed I should think the word itself, gentleman, should impress upon me what aspect I ought to have settled on as the defining one.”
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“I told myself that, too. It turned out myself was a skeptical bitch and didn’t believe me.”
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“I was bad at relationships. I was bad at reading between lines, at figuring out what people really meant if they didn’t actually say it, and at being charming or flirty or whatever it was, exactly, that women were supposed to do to attract men.”
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“If you’re going to get technical, you’re going to lose all your friends.”
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“I’m not a goddamned faith healer! I don’t talk to God! I’m a mechanic and her goddamned engine was broken!”
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“Imagined slights could be more poisonous than real ones.”
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“In the past, my brain babbling at such length had meant there was something it either didn’t want to think about which things numbered in the dozens right now or it was working out some extreme cleverness that would at any moment leap out and surprise me. Much to my dismay, nothing leapt out.”
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“It wasn’t that I didn’t feel like sharing. Mostly I just figured they couldn’t do anything about it, so there was no point in worrying them.”
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“Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my way to resentful.”
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“Much of my life appeared to be a lesson in not judging books by their covers.”
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“Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.”
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“Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.”
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