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Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it. David Foster Wallace
There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling. A. J. P. Taylor
Pablo Neruda quote: "my feet will want to walk to where you are sleepingbut. I..."
my feet will want to walk to where you are sleepingbut. I shall go on living. Pablo Neruda
The sad engineer would never go back to England; he would become one of these elderly expatriates who hide out in remote countries, with odd sympathies, a weakness for the local religion, an unreasonable anger, and the kind of total recall that drives curious strangers away. Paul Theroux
You think you're no good, so you can't do good things. Jesus, Codi, how long are you going to keep limping around on that crutch? It's the other way around, it's what you *do* that makes you who you are. Barbara Kingsolver
Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it wasn't a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We're like eagles up here, he thought. Sometimes we show tortoise how to fly. Then we let go. Terry Prachett
What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap of freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was. Of course, hope meant being cut down on some street corner, as you ran like mad, by a random bullet. But when I really thought it through, nothing was going to allow me such a luxury. Everything was against it; I would just be caught up in the machinery again. Albert Camus
The statement that there is any such thing, and the statement that there is no such thing, are niether of them statements that science can make. And real scientists do not usually make them. It is usually the journalists and popular novelists who have picked up a few odds and ends of half-baked science from textbooks who go in for them. C. S. Lewis
Oprah Winfrey quote: "Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if..."
Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books. Oprah Winfrey
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Suth wilt thou be to me, who must Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness... John Donne
Augusten Burroughs quote: "your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone."
your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone. Augusten Burroughs
A pack of coyotes set up a sudden racket near the house, yipping and howling, so close by they sounded like they had us surrounded. When a hunting pack corners a rabbit they go into a blood frenzy, making human-sounding screams. The baby sighed and stirred in his crib. At seven months, he was just the size of a big jackrabbit--the same amount of meat. The back of my scalp and neck prickled. It's an involuntary muscle contraction that causes that, setting the hair follicles on edge; if we had... Barbara Kingsolver
We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues. Anne Lamott
Eugene V. Debs quote: "I may not be able to say all I think, but I am not going to..."
I may not be able to say all I think, but I am not going to say anything I do not think. Eugene V. Debs
What would they do to me,' he asked in confidential tones, 'if I refused to fly [the missions]?' We'd probably shoot you,' ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen replied. We?' Yossarian cried in surprise. 'What do yo mean, we? Since when are you on their side?' If you're going to be shot, whose side do you expect me to be on?' ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen retorted. Joseph Heller

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