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It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe. Edgar Allan Poe
The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients. The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution. This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer. Maxim Gorky
The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can't imagine living without having loved a person. A man, in my case. It could be a woman, but whatever. I think, what I always tell kids when they get out of class and ask, 'What should I do now?' I always say, 'Keep a low overhead. You're not going to make a lot of money.' And the next thing I say: 'Don't live with a person who doesn't respect your work.' That's the most important thing—that's more important than the... Grace Paley
John Irving quote: "In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases"
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases John Irving
Albert Camus quote: "In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease..."
In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that's all. Albert Camus
JOCASTA: So clear in this case were the oracles, so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say; what God discovers need of, easilyhe shows to us himself. Sophocles
In case you didn't know it, friend, the Weather Bureau can post tornado warnings, but when it comes to telling exactly when and where they'll touch down, they don't know fuck-all. Stephen King
C. S. Lewis quote: "In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other..."
In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people’s we do not accept them easily enough. C. S. Lewis
John Updike quote: "The fiction writer is the ombudsman who argues our humble,..."
The fiction writer is the ombudsman who argues our humble, dubious case in the halls of eternal record. John Updike
Harper Lee quote: "I doubt if we’d ever get a complete case tried—the ladies’d be..."
I doubt if we’d ever get a complete case tried—the ladies’d be interrupting to ask questions. Harper Lee
Christopher Hitchens quote: "Everyone has a little book in them, and in most cases, that is..."
Everyone has a little book in them, and in most cases, that is where it should stay. Christopher Hitchens
Love of the absolute engenders a predilection for self-destruction. Hence the passion for monasteries and brothels. Cells and women, in both cases. Weariness with life fares well in the shadow of whores and saintly women. Emile M. Cioran
But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic. James Branch Cabell
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task. Epictetus
C. S. Lewis quote: "a creature who has kept a planet in its orbit for several..."
a creature who has kept a planet in its orbit for several billions of years will be able to manage a packing case! C. S. Lewis

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