"The boy thought, How powerful a story is, and how by a kind of magic it compels the imagination; there was nothing in the world, it seemed to him, so mysteriously strong; and he began to wonder if he would ever have anything as beautiful to tell."
Glenway Wescott
"Be yourself!’ said Gro. ‘No one will hear any of you otherwise, still less trust you. That’s the most important thing of all. If you’re not yourself you just can’t sustain it in the long term."
Åsne Seierstad
"Generosity is not measured by how much we give away. Generosity is measured by how much we keep for ourselves."
John Weece
"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."
Mark Twain
"Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat."
Maureen Johnson
"Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously 'born' in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality."
Antonio Gramsci
"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction."
Rachel Carson
"A cat is friendly in a hollow sort of way, like the way a prostitute is friendly."
Jonathan-David Jackson
"Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked."
R. Buckminster Fuller
"The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable."
Rabindranath Tagore
"Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads."
Lee Westwood
"The Ego uses the mind as a means of spiritual search. It is through the mind that the Ego intends to understand what is beyond mind and forms. The mind in this way prepares the mental image of enlightenment, seeking, happiness etc."
Frank Wanderer
"The criminal is the creative artist."
the detective only the critic.
"To rule one's anger is well to prevent it is better."
Tryon Edwards
"You can't just constantly judge a situation or a person because of what you're used to or how they look. They might turn out to be this sweet man who asks you what your dreams are. You know?"
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