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I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly. Umberto Eco
E. M. Forster quote: "Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time);..."
Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain. E. M. Forster
But, instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover, life gives us something that we could hardly imagine. Marcel Proust
It is not easy to learn much about love, but one thing I discovered, that Lady Harleigh taught me: it is not whom you love that is important, but only that we love. Thomas Tryon
I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye. Ray Bradbury
David Hare quote: "The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe."
The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe. David Hare
Upward growth occurs in cycles that build upon each other in an ascending spiral of capacity and understanding. They are often not easy, but they are always beneficial. As you walk the path of righteousness, you will grow in strength, understanding, and selfesteem. You will discover hidden talents and unknown capacities. The whole course of your life may be altered for your happiness and the Lord’s purposes. Richard G. Scott
Instead of making myself write the book I ought to write, the novel that was expected of me, I conjured up the book I myself would have liked to read, the sort by an unknown writer, from another age and another country, discovered in an attic. Italo Calvino
In another Nabokov novel, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Sebastian's brother discovers two seemingly incongruous pictures in his dead brother's library: a pretty, curly-haired child playing with a dog and a Chinese man in the act of being beheaded. The two pictures remind us of the close relation between banality and brutality. Azar Nafisi
Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain. Margaret Mitchell
It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it. Jodi Picoult
For if men needed speech in order to learn to think, they had a still greater need for knowing how to think in order to discover the art of speaking" - Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Western world may have been undergoing a steady transformation, the young may have thought they had discovered a new way of talking to each other, the old barriers were said to be crumbling from the base. But the famous 'hand on the shoulder' was still applied, perhaps less frequently, perhaps with less pressure. Ian Mcewan
Certainly, as a reader, I had always discovered the deepest truths in fiction; it was through reading novels that I learned about the world, a world not only of fact but of imagination and emotion. Alice Hoffman
I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve Paulo Coelho

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