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Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her pack. She didn't like discomfort; even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes. Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere. E. L. Konigsburg
Susan Sontag quote: "I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired..."
I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all Susan Sontag
A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma. Tom Stoppard
Philip Pullman quote: "Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without..."
Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all. Philip Pullman
It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness. - The Wicked Witch of the West. Now I know I have a heart, because it's breaking. - The Tin WoodsmanHearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. L. Frank Baum
Jane Austen quote: "He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold..."
He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.... Jane Austen
You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it. But you'll be astounded to learn what the sea will do.' What do you mean?' she smiled. Well, love isn't a good sailor and it languishes on a sea voyage. You'll be surprised when you have the Atlantic between you and Larry to find how slight the pang is that before you sailed seemed intolerable. W. Somerset Maugham
The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often. George Bernard Shaw
Fathers and SonsArkaday watching Katya's face as she accepts his marriage proposal: Anyone who has never seen such tears in the eyes of a beloved one cannot fathom to what extent, all overcome with gratitude and shame, a human being can be happy on earth. Bazarov on his death bed: I am done for. I've fallen under the wheel. And it transpires that there was no point in thinking about the future. It's an old story, is death, but to every man it comes anew. Ivan Turgenev
I also knew that he was the kind of anile little runt who, in foyers and theatre bars the West End over, can be heard bleating into their gin and tonics, "I go to the theatre to be entertained. Stephen Fry
Anatole Broyard quote: "If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if..."
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times. Anatole Broyard
Christopher Hitchens quote: "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without..."
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. Christopher Hitchens
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence. Sri Aurobindo
Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls- which, after all, we are too afraid to surrender but yet make us feel more miserable than any other thing? But isn't it also pain that often makes us most aware of self? It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one's burned tongues and skinned knees, that one's aches and pains are all one’s own. Even more... Donna Tartt
Tom Wolfe quote: "Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are,..."
Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about. Tom Wolfe

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