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- Author's profession: Journalist
- Nationality: american
- Born: September 23, 1889
- Died: December 14, 1974
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On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to put your sunglasses or spare change, it is the obvious place, and it works extremely well, I must say, so long as the car is not actually moving. However, as soon as you put the car in motion ... everything slides off ... It can hold nothing that has not been nailed to it. So I ask you: what then is it for?
Bill Bryson
I wasn't thinking of Tom but of myself. And of a self who seemed to be mot 'me' but 'she.' An innocent, moving fecklessly through the days, knowing nothing, whom I saw now with awful wisdom. ... I had hesitated to make this journey, had put it off year after year but had known always that eventually it must be undertaken. And, confronted at last with the mirage -- with the shining phantom of that other time -- I was surprised to find that it was myself that was the poignant presence.
Penelope Lively
Prisimeni kosmin dsn? Toks tok traukia. Tiesiog bk koks esi: ramus, viesus ir giedras. Kai leidiame suvisti visai savo esybei, kai kiekvien minut klausiame savs, ar i tikro norime taip elgtis ir darome tai tik atsak sau "Taip", tuomet savaime atstumiame nuo savs tuos, kurie nieko i ms negali imokti, ir pritraukiame ne tik gebanius mokytis i ms, bet ir tuos, i kuri patys turime k perimti.
Richard Bach
Freedom is not a quality of man, nor is it an ability, a capacity, a kind of being that somehow flares up in him. Anyone investigating man to discover freedom finds nothing of it. Why? because freedom is not a quality which can be revealed--it is not a possession, a presence, an object, nor is it a form of existence--but a relationship and nothing else. In truth, freedom is a relationship between two persons. Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer