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Methwold's hair, parted in the middle has a lot to do with my beginnings. It was one of those hairlines along which history and sexuality moved. Salman Rushdie
Norton Juster quote: "For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons..."
For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons. Norton Juster
Keeping big secrets, particularly secrets about things of one's own doing, is a tough proposition for even very bright people. Kurt Vonnegut
Walter Jon Williams quote: "I hate it!" he said. "I don't want to be human..."
I hate it!" he said. "I don't want to be human anymore."Neither do I," she said. "It's not a good place to be. Walter Jon Williams
Aristotle quote: "We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act,..."
We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit Aristotle
Margaret Atwood quote: "It's chilly in this room. I have no shawl, I hug my arms..."
It's chilly in this room. I have no shawl, I hug my arms around myself because who else is there to do it? Margaret Atwood
What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. Dorothy Day
Interest yourself in public affairs as a duty of citizenship, but do not surrender your faith to those who discredit and debase politics by scoffing at sentiment and principle, and whose political activity consists in attempts to gain popular support by cunning devices and shrewd manipulation. Grover Cleveland
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices. Joyce Carol Oates
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Important lecture!' cried Pnin. 'What to do? It is a catastroph!"
Important lecture!' cried Pnin. 'What to do? It is a catastroph! Vladimir Nabokov
What the hell are you tryng to do?"She gave him an innocent stare. "Why, have a conversation. I suppose you're out of practice."He glared, narrow-eyed, then turned away. "I'm going for a walk," he muttered."Lovely." Gennie slipped her arm through his. "I'll go with you."I didn't ask you," Grant said flatly, stopping again."Oh." Gennie batted her eyes. "You're trying to charm me by being rude again. It's so difficult to resist. Nora Roberts
Jean de La Fontaine quote: "Patience and time do more than force and rage."
Patience and time do more than force and rage. Jean de La Fontaine
Paulo Coelho quote: "It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and..."
It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future. Paulo Coelho
I am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly. I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows. I tell all old men that to their face, all these venerable old men, all these silver-haired and reverend seniors! I tell the whole world that to its face! I have a right to say so, for I shall go on living... Fyodor Dostoevsky
As for those who think they don't like to read, well, I know they're making a mistake, just as all of us do when we try to judge ourselves. Now is the time to give reading a chance, for if you don't get the habit when you're young you may never get it. And if you don't get it, you may grow up to be just as dull as most adults are. Clifton Fadiman

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