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Image of William James
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
- William James
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Image of Guy Gavriel Kay
... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.
- Guy Gavriel Kay
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Image of Fanny Kemble
I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
- Fanny Kemble
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Image of Douglas Adams
So you can imagine what happens when a mainland species gets introduced to an island. It would be like introducing Al Capone, Genghis Khan and Rupert Murdoch into the Isle of Wight - the locals wouldn't stand a chance.
- Douglas Adams
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Image of Kim Kardashian
I rented an island for Kanye West birthday. A far, far away place where no one can find us.
- Kim Kardashian
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Image of Michael Johnson
A bird, music and food -desert island items
- Michael Johnson
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Image of Zora Neale Hurston
For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.
- Zora Neale Hurston
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Image of Zora Neale Hurston
The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.
- Zora Neale Hurston
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Image of Tove Jansson
An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores, everything functions according to rituals that are as hard as rock from repetition, and at the same time they amble through their days as whimsically and casually as if the world ended at the horizon.
- Tove Jansson
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Image of Clive Barker
Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything.
- Clive Barker
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Image of Brigitte Bardot
Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image of their island.
- Brigitte Bardot
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Image of Dave Barry
Here's my proposal, which is based on the TV show Survivor: We put the entire Congress on an island. All the food on this island is locked inside a vault, which can be opened only by an ordinary American taxpayer named Bob. Every day, the congresspersons are given a section of the Tax Code, which they must rewrite so that Bob can understand it. If he can, he lets them eat that day; if he can't, he doesn't.
- Dave Barry
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Image of James M. Barrie
They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.
- James M. Barrie
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Image of Dave Barry
You might have mentioned this to me Molly,” said Leonard. “The fact that there are hostile natives on the island.” “I forgot,” said Molly. “You forgot?” said Leonard. “There’s been a lot happening,” said Molly.
- Dave Barry
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Image of James Russell Lowell
Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.
- James Russell Lowell
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Image of Jack London
Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman, nor can one so determine to love Hawaii.
- Jack London
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Image of Herman Melville
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
- Herman Melville
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