Doing Quotes (page 649)

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• reading
• fear
• fairy

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. C. S. Lewis

• kindness
• some
• kind

Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness. Jodi Picoult

• time
• past
• view

There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet. Alan Moore

• pizza
• things
• than

There's only four things we do better than anyone else: musicmoviesmicrocode (software)high-speed pizza delivery Neal Stephenson

• science
• sometimes
• coming out

Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it. Richard P. Feynman

• mind
• reading
• book

In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can't lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks or fire gunshots in your living room; you have to listen to it in your head. A book won't move your eyes for you the way images on a screen do. It won't move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in it ... To read a story well is to follow it, to act it, to feel it, to become it--everything short of writing it, in fact. Reading is... Ursula K. Le Guin

• fun
• something fun
• wrong doings

If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong. Groucho Marx

• love
• understanding
• you are loved

Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow, do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain? Bob Dylan

• good
• feeling
• feelings

How you feel should be secondary to the good you can do. Laura Schlessinger

• words
• god
• forgiveness

But we had with us, to keep and to care for, more than five hundred bruised bodies of men- men made in the image of God, marred by the hand of man and must we say in the name of God? And where is the reckoning for such things? And who is answerable? One might almost shrink from the sound of his own voice, which had launched into the palpitating air words of order- do we call it? - fraught with such ruin. Was it God's command we heard or His forgiveness we must forever implore? Joshua Chamberlain

• business
• busy
• job

But no one was asking me. I was here to do a job, and gray steel lockers or pale peach jukebox was no business of mine. Haruki Murakami

• lost
• leaving
• friend

in real life I always seem to have a hard time winding up a conversation or asking somebody to leave, and sometimes the moment becomes so delicate and fraught with social complexity that I'll get overwhelmed trying to sort out all the different possible ways of saying it and all the different implications of each option and will just sort of blank out and do it totally straight -- 'I want to terminate the conversation and not have you be in my apartment anymore' -- which evidently makes me... David Foster Wallace

• work
• humanity
• human

The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work. Ayn Rand

• lies
• innocent
• lied

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet—when they do, their victims lie strewn around. Elizabeth Bowen

• love
• excellence
• dark

I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see thee better for the years That hunch themselves between, The miner’s lamp sufficient be To nullify the mine. And in the grave I see thee best— Its little panels be A-glow, all ruddy with the light I held so high for thee! What need of day to those whose dark Hath so surpassing sun, It seem it be continually At the meridian? Emily Dickinson