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Franz Kafka quote: "A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us."

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

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Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about. Laura Dern
You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them wrong all again...That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that- well, lucky you. Philip Roth
You love nobody. Is that not true?"Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art? Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. Herman Hesse
Alfred Lord Tennyson quote: "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Fear the time when the strikes stop while the great owners live - for every little beaten strike is proof that the step is being taken? fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is the foundation of Manself, and this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe. John Steinbeck
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I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great. Joanna Newsom
Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you side step that? Suzanne Collins
Sylvia Day quote: "I'd rather argue with you, angel, then laugh with anyone else."
I'd rather argue with you, angel, then laugh with anyone else. Sylvia Day
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I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac. Andy Hertzfeld
We will grow old, and older, One of us will die, and then the other. The earth itself will be impaledby sunspokes. It doesn't matter. We have been imprinted on the protons of energy herself, Robin Morgan
For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her early teens, and later as a young woman. The recognition did not lessen the reality, the poignancy of the revelation by any suggestion or promise of instability. The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant; was hers, to torture her as it was... Kate Chopin
Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. Imogen Cunningham
It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve. Lee Westwood
I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me. Sigmund Freud