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Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable. Azar Nafisi
Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling. Julio Cortazar
My life has been one great big joke, A dance that's walked, A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke, When I think about myself. Maya Angelou
Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs? not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can "be", that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves. Rollo May
Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care...Hardly one day in a hundred of unbroken joy and sunshine. And you are of that small number who at lucky! As for the other men, stagnant night is upon them. Victor Hugo
Jane Austen quote: "She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of..."
She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man. Jane Austen
The Queen had only one way of setting all difficulties, great or small. “Off with his head!” she said without even looking round. Lewis Carroll
I don’t want to know wreckage, dreck, and waste, but these are the materials and so are the slow lift of the moon’s belly. over wreckage, dreck, and waste, wild treefrogs calling in another season, light and music still pouring over our fissured, cracked terrain. If you had known me once you’d still know me though in a different light and life. This is no place you ever knew me. But it would not surprise you to find me here, walking in fog, the sweep of the great ocean eluding me, even... Adrienne Rich
Victor Hugo quote: "Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I..."
Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great man. Each of us can profit by it. Victor Hugo
Albert Camus quote: "When you have an elevated spirit and a miserable heart, you..."
When you have an elevated spirit and a miserable heart, you write great things and do the poor. Albert Camus
C. S. Lewis quote: "I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with..."
I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them. C. S. Lewis
Need-love cries to God from our poverty; Gift-love longs to serve, or even to suffer for, God; Appreciative love says: “We give thanks to thee for thy great glory.” Need-love says of a woman “I cannot live without her”; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection – if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than... C. S. Lewis
No prize , however great can justify an ounce of self deception or a small departure of the ugly facts. ( Notes from Underground) Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nick Hornby quote: "One thing about great art: it made you love people more,..."
One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. Nick Hornby
Alas, I have begun my loneliest walk. But whoever is of my kind, cannot escape such an hour, the hour which says to him, 'Only now are you going your way to greatness. Peak and abyss, they are now joined together, for all things are baptized in a well of eternity, and lie beyond good and evil. Friedrich Nietzsche

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