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C. S. Lewis quote: "I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it..."
I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. C. S. Lewis
Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved. Ken Follet
Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beingsbut contemplate their return. If you don't realize the source, you stumble in confusion and sorrow. When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, disinterested, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, dignified as a king. Immersed in the wonder of the Tao, you can deal with whatever life brings you, And when death comes, you are ready. Zhuangzi
Dodie Smith quote: "How can a young man like to wear a beard?"
How can a young man like to wear a beard? Dodie Smith
Larry McMurtry quote: "Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if..."
Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps. Larry McMurtry
Isaac Babel quote: "No iron can pierce a heart with such force as a period put..."
No iron can pierce a heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. Isaac Babel
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument..."
Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose. W. Somerset Maugham
Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury. T. H. White
To a thoughtful biographer, [Ebling Mis's house] was "the symbolization of a retreat from a non-academic reality", a society columnist gushed silkily at its "frightfully masculine atmosphere of careless disorder", a University Ph. D called it brusquely, "bookish, but unorganized", a non-university friend said, "good for a drink anytime and you can put your feet on the sofa", and a breezy newsweekly broadcast, that went in for color, spoke of the "rooky, down-to-earth, no-nonsense living... Isaac Asimov
Steven Weinberg quote: "All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to..."
All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically Steven Weinberg
Certainly solitude is dangerous for active minds. We require around us men who can think and talk. When we are alone for a long time, we people space with phantoms. Guy de Maupassant
I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Bill Bryson
Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people. Dag Hammarskjold
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "I can have oodles of charm when I want to."
I can have oodles of charm when I want to. Kurt Vonnegut
My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice. Ursula K. Le Guin

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