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Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently while an underprivileged farmer burglarizes her. — H.L. Mencken

He did not know why books had not taught him how to talk so other people wanted to listen. — Cassandra Clare

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri

Well ... you know, I would wake up with a terrible hangover in a jail somewhere and worst part was that I would not know why I was there. — Colin Quinn

Coquettes know how to please, not love, and that is why men love them SO much. — Pierre De Marivaux

We have to grasp not only the Know-How but also 'Know Why', if we want to master the Toyota Production System. — Shigeo Shingo

If you want to know why you didn't make a boat
I'll tell you. You're just out there hammering the water. You're killing fish, not rowing. — Jim Dietz

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I am not beautiful, so I don't know why I'm making myself ugly. But the mustache stays. — John Hodgman

I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music. — Adam McKay

She did not know why it seemed to her so tragic to cry in her sleep. — W. Somerset Maugham

Not that I have anything against music now, but I just hated being an anything. I don't know why. — Charlemagne Palestine

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone. — C.S. Lewis

You can love someone your whole life and not know why. You can even live with it. — Tarryn Fisher

I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity. — Paul Walker

I do not know why the mind chooses these small things to break itself on. — Chris Cleave

It's not like I got caught masturbating, for chrissake; she doesn't know me, why the hell would she care if I'm superstitious? - Karen — S.D. Perry

For all the secret societies lunatics out there who think they know anything, why don't you chill..We're ALL guests on Earth, not Management. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why. — Elvis Costello

Why not work with your friends? It's working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility. — Will Ferrell

I don't know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy relationships. — Ginnifer Goodwin

the better you know a particular historical period, the harder it becomes to explain why things happened one way and not another. Those — Yuval Noah Harari

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew! — Malcolm Gladwell

I don't know why I always end up talking about my relationships. I try not to. — David Arquette

In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process. — Gerald R. Ford

Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not? — Gloria Estefan

He did not know why her presence made him confess things unconfessed in his own mind. — Ayn Rand

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening? — Lawrence M. Krauss

I am getting quite uneasy about him, though why I should I do not know, but I do wish that he would write, if it were only a single line — Bram Stoker

You may well ask me why ... I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all. — George Bernard Shaw

Why do ye care," elf? Athrogate asked him. "I do not know," came Jarlaxle's honest response. — R.A. Salvatore

If a person doesn't know they're hurting, why, maybe they're not. I was wrong. — Stephen King

I have not a clue why they sent it to me. As far as I know I have not got a reputation as a receiver of stolen goods. — Jeremy Paxman

What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell - I'll never know why! — Adam Ferrara

Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad. — Dr. Seuss

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because
I don't know why. — Anton Chekhov

Why do you have to know so much about things, Jessie? There's just not that much to things that I could ever see. — Marsha Norman

Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers? — Anita Diamant

She did not know why the heat felt so heavy in that house, why all of a sudden it felt so much less like warmth than she remembered. — Abby Slovin

You may not know my reasons, but you can assume I have them and be kind. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I realized that it was not that I didn't want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn't know why I wanted to go on — Kay Redfield Jamison

She did not know why she was sad, but because of this peculiar sadness, she began to realize she ought to leave the town. — Carson McCullers

I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is. — David Hewson

Greatest danger is not failure, but be successful and not know why. — James C. Collins

I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it. — Louise Bourgeois

You don't know what you don't know. That's why you don't have. Because to know and not to have is not to know. — Chris Brady

I don't know you, and I'll never see you again, so why not carpe the...dick? — Abigail Barnette

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground — William Shakespeare

Talk about not knowing other people - why, when you came right down to it, you didn't even know yourself! — Robert Bloch

Look," she said. "You're right. You deserve an explanation. I think it's okay to tell you everything now - not that we know too much of the why. — James Dashner

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero. — Ani DiFranco

Josh loved his mother, but he did not know why. Diane loved her son, and she did not care why. — Joseph Fink

She did not know why she could not move. It was as in a dream when the heart strains and the body cannot stir. — D.H. Lawrence

I'm an Igor, thur. We don't athk quethtionth."
"Really? Why not?"
"I don't know, thur. I didn't athk. — Terry Pratchett

The truth is this: We always have sure and sufficient reasons for knowing why we can trust God, but do not always know what God is doing and why. — Os Guinness

There are many people who are consciously aware of their inner rage although they might not know exactly what it is and why it erupts in them. — Christopher Dines

Given that I don't know anything, when I am making up stories about the future, why not make it a good story instead of a scary one? — Sharon Weil

I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played. — George Carlin

I do not know what happened with your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished for no daughter but you. — John Stephens

Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are. — Khalil Gibran

When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not. — Julia Roberts

Sometimes we know not where or how far we are going until we stop and think about just how far we have come and why. — Jan Hellriegel

It's really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them. — Sandra Lee

You know in the U.S. everyone has a gun in the room. That's not the reason why you go and invade the home with anti-terrorist forces. — Kim Dotcom

I am passionate and curious. I want to know why and why not. — Debasish Mridha

Robin did not know why the announcement that Strike was off to meet Elin should lower her spirits. — Robert Galbraith

I know I probably never will win the league MVP or passing title. That is not why I play the game. I try to win football games and championships. — Ben Roethlisberger

Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana. — Gautama Buddha

Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid. — Jon Ronson

People are douche bags. Many people. Not all. But you know, most.
Which is why we destroyed the world. — Christopher Moore

Cradle of Solitude
For we know not why our tribulations
are given as such
our fragile forms
created from the dust ... — Muse

I do not know exactly why, but it seems to me that images do not belong to anybody but are instead there, at the disposal of all. — Maurizio Cattelan

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words? — Martin Freeman

Whatever path brought you here
There is a reason why you came,
Through you may not know it now. — Ilchi Lee

Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why. — Robert A. Heinlein

I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe. — Paul McCartney

That's not why I love, you, you know. I don't love you because you make me fly. You make me fly because I love you. — LeighAnn Kopans

I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it. — Oliver North

I don't know why I went with him. Maybe it was because he'd said he'd missed me, and I was sick and tired of not being wanted. — J.L. Merrow

I don't think anyone knows why they meditate. As a matter of fact I'm not even sure that we do meditate. All we know is that we don't know. — Frederick Lenz

There's not that much known, but there's a lot you can write about what's not known, why it isn't known and who doesn't know it. — Richard Ellis

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is ... — Carl Sagan

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them. — Gene Stratton-Porter

I saw you break down. I know you're not a monster, Tristan. I just don't understand why you pretend to be. — Brittainy C. Cherry

I never tell them about our lives. You know why? It is not because I am ashamed. It is because some things are just good, too good to be judged. — Alice Pung

And why not?" "You know why! This is a bad idea." "Perhaps I like a challenge." "Perhaps you're a glutton for punishment!" "Perhaps I am in love. — Karen Chance

Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears. — Antonio Vieira

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it. — Whittaker Chambers

I know he's crying but I don't know how to comfort him, or why I am not crying myself. — Veronica Roth

I don't know why certain people shine for others. I don know why you and not someone else — Melissa Marr

Not to experience the reality why you are created is not to know God — Sunday Adelaja

All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why! — L. Ron Hubbard

Are you sure you're allowed to do this?" she said. "No! I'm not! I won't know until after I've done it! That's why I've got to do it! Then I'll know! — Terry Pratchett

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

...At that moment, our fates entwined, Roses. I know not why, but I know it to be true - I am bound to you forevermore. There is nothing to regret. — Juliette Miller

I hate and I love. Why do I do this, you may ask? I do not know, but I feel it, and I am tortured. — Catullus

I can't tell you the things I know," I repeated.
"Why not?"
"They aren't my secrets to tell. — Embee

Fireheart, why do you cry?"
"Because I am lost. And do not know the way — Sarah J. Maas

Great friendships are like cell phones, you do not know why they work but are so glad that they do. — Hester Browne

An anagram of Axl Rose is oral sex. Why do I know? Because when I'm not playing music I love solving erotic jumbles. — Slash