"Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told."
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"Children Learn to Love and Hate A child understands love by three months and hate by three years.How the child processes that understandingwill shape his character for the next seventy."
"Bespeckled Heroes [10w] Great heroes in 100 years become statues speckled with birdshit."
"I’m so shy I make Bigfoot look like a socialite. Networking’s not a mystery to me—but I’m mythical to networking."
"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
"Vices [10w] Cultivate vices;to be without them is not to be."
"Russian, Umerzhurnalistka Someone who too many questions for his own good. Literally, 'Dead journalist'."
"The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)"
"Trying to fall out of love is like trying to climb a mountain. Blindfolded, on crutches, naked in a hail storm."
"Standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between possibility and reality."
"You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through."
"في روح و عقل كل واحد منا شرارة صغيرة ربما تصبح من خلال النفخ فيها"نارًا عظيمة تضيء عقول و قلوب الملايين"
"In tough and desperate times when your creativity begs to be birthed, loose the confines of the ground; stand up in your faith and walk atop the waves…"
"What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?"
"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them."
"I sympathize with a mother who has three mouths to feed—especially if two of those mouths are on her face. With a woman like that I’d listen twice as hard for doublespeak. I’m pretty accustomed to picking up on political rhetoric."
"A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest."
"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."
"The AP Stylebook is Useless {Couplet} I can't abbreviate abbreviation nor know how to initialize an acronym,I can find the contraction for contraction nor the précis for a homonym."
"Life provides chances to open your heart all the time."
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