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For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death. There is little to do but groan and make an excuse and slip away as quickly as one can. Walker Percy
I shall arm myself with a knife" said Mr. Hale: "the days of eating fruit so primitively as you describe are over with me. I must pare it and quarter it before I can enjoy it. Elizabeth Gaskell
Haruki Murakami quote: "What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out..."
What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand? Haruki Murakami
After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you. Charlotte Bronte
There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man. Bertrand Russell
We have to get the... the thing I got... to the Angel. And then he'll tell Door about her family, and he'll tell me how to get home." Lamia looked at Hunter with delight. "And he can give you brains," she said, cheerfully, "and me a heart. Neil Gaiman
In the art of literature there are two contending parties. Those who aim to tell stories that are more or less well thought out, and those who aim at beautiful language, beauty of form. This contest may last a very long time; each side has a fifty-fifty chance. Only the poet can rightfully demand that verse be beautiful and nothing but. Paul Gauguin
Isaac Asimov quote: "You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show..."
You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself. Isaac Asimov
My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured. Samuel Beckett
For if God Himself became man, this man, what else can this mean but that He declared himself guilty of the contradiction against Himself Karl Barth
Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal. C. S. Lewis
Rudyard Kipling quote: "If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two..."
If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same. Rudyard Kipling
Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience’s sake. Barack Obama
This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. Neal Stephenson
Albert Einstein quote: "I do not teach anyone I only provide the environment in which..."
I do not teach anyone I only provide the environment in which they can learn Albert Einstein

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