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Writers take words seriously—perhaps the last professional class that does—and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader. John Updike
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.' - On Civil Disobedience in 1969 Hannah Arendt
Philip Pullman quote: "It was a jaw cracking, lung-bursting yawn that lasted almost a..."
It was a jaw cracking, lung-bursting yawn that lasted almost a minute. Philip Pullman
There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance. Sue Monk Kidd
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground. And tell sad stories of the death of kings; How some have been deposed; some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed; Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd; All murder'd: for within the hollow crown. That rounds the mortal temples of a king. Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks,... William Shakespeare
You think about that,” Miss Maudie was saying. “It was no accident. I was sittin‘ there on the porch last night, waiting. I waited and waited to see you all come down the sidewalk, and as I waited I thought, Atticus Finch won’t win, he can’t win, but he’s the only man in these parts who can keep a jury out so long in a case like that. And I thought to myself, well, we’re making a step—it’s just a baby-step, but it’s a step.” “‘t’s all right to talk like that—can’t any Christian judges an’... Harper Lee
…you don’t reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings … serendipitously.” ---The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor John Barth
You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure. C. S. Lewis
Cornelia Funke quote: "My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story?..."
My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story? said Dustfinger at last. Cornelia Funke
When occasions present themselves in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests to withstand the temporary delusion in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection. Instances might be cited in which a conduct of this kind has saved the people from very fatal consequences of their own mistakes, and has procured lasting monuments of their... Alexander Hamilton
Jane Austen quote: "My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you..."
My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last? Jane Austen
Haruki Murakami quote: "A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't..."
A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die. Haruki Murakami
...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily. Jose Saramago
I am sorry I can say nothing more to console you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on stage. But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science. Fyodor Dostoevsky
But money, of course, is never just money. It's alwayssomething else, and it's always something more, andit always has the last word. Paul Auster

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