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Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it. Ernest Hemingway
My dear, I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows like a p-p-pin cushion...Where do you lurk? I shall come down your burrow and ch-chivvy you out like an old st-t-toat. Evelyn Waugh
The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. C. S. Lewis
Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air. Daphne du Maurier
Wallace Stevens quote: "I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the..."
I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office. Wallace Stevens
Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today. Kurt Vonnegut
Ian Mcewan quote: "How do you feel?' Scared,' she said. 'Really scared.' But you..."
How do you feel?' Scared,' she said. 'Really scared.' But you don't look it.' I feel I'm shivering inside. Ian Mcewan
Thomas Jefferson quote: "He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much..."
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time. Thomas Jefferson
Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated. Nick Hornby
Umberto Eco quote: "It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of..."
It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once. Umberto Eco
Carl Jung quote: "The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to..."
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others. Carl Jung
William Shakespeare quote: "Is this a vision? Is this a dream? Do I sleep?"
Is this a vision? Is this a dream? Do I sleep? William Shakespeare
If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher. Rudolf Steiner
Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness. Neil Gaiman
People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver. George Carlin

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