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A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or gin. They even need to buy a pinch of intellectual catnip now and then to liven up their thoughts...

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Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity. John Piper
I remember everything about you," says Peeta, tucking a loose strand of hair behind my ear. "You're the one who wasn't paying attention. Suzanne Collins
I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine. Billy Sherwood
M. Scott Peck quote: "It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and..."
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. M. Scott Peck
Rex Stout quote: "I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the..."
I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best. Rex Stout
We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through. Christopher Meloni
He seemed to be lying on the bed. He could not see very well. Her youthful, rapacious face, with blackened eyebrows, leaned over him as he sprawled there. George Orwell
Virginia Woolf quote: "Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted..."
Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue. Virginia Woolf
[T]here's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us. Franz Kafka
Terry Prachett quote: "You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together..."
You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope. Terry Prachett
There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pt. Margaret Atwood
Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished. Dario Fo
Jean Anouilh quote: "Things are beautiful if you love them."
Things are beautiful if you love them. Jean Anouilh
I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move. Olafur Eliasson
If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life. Hal Sparks