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Doings Quotes (page 774)

Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; if not, you probably should not be bothering with his book. But understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him. Mortimer Adler
Dan Brown quote: "A little faith can do wonders..."
A little faith can do wonders... Dan Brown
It's not that I was an outright nitwit of a child. It's that the things even a nitwit could do with little or no instruction often confused me. Augusten Burroughs
Don't you suppose men get surprised after they're married to findthat their wives do have sense?"Well, it's too late den. Dey's already mahied. Margaret Mitchell
If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people about it. About all I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about.[...] It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. J. D. Salinger
No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth. Ann Patchett
Ray Bradbury quote: "How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?"
How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you? Ray Bradbury
Dean Koontz quote: "People sometimes speak in code, often without realizing they..."
People sometimes speak in code, often without realizing they are doing so, as much a mystery to themselves as others. Dean Koontz
When Zarathustra had spoken these words, he again looked at the people, and was silent. "There they stand," said he to his heart; "there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears. Friedrich Nietzsche
By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain. H. G. Wells
Anne Bronte quote: "If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must..."
If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do. Anne Bronte
Love We Must Part. Love, we must part now: do not let it be. Calamitous and bitter. In the past. There has been too much moonlight and self-pity: Let us have done with it: for now at last. Never has sun more boldly paced the sky, Never were hearts more eager to be free, To kick down worlds, lash forests; you and INo longer hold them; we are husks, that see. The grain going forward to a different use. There is regret. Always, there is regret. But it is better that our lives unloose, As two... Philip Larkin
Every once in a while she'll get worked up and cry like that. But that's O.K. She's letting her feelings out. The scary thing is not being able to do that. Then your feelings build up and harden and die inside. That's when you're in big trouble. Haruki Murakami
A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he only ought to consider whether he is doing right or wrong. John Steinbeck
Aleister Crowley quote: "There is no low beyond 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole..."
There is no low beyond 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole ov the law' 'Love is the law, Love under will Aleister Crowley

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