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A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting. Walter Mosley
Ask me not where I live or what I like to eat . . . Ask me what I am living for and what I think is keeping me from living fully that. Thomas Merton
Sylvia Plath quote: "It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and..."
It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water. Sylvia Plath
This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases. Dan Brown
You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play Louisa May Alcott
Thom Yorke quote: "When you were here before. Couldn't look you in the eye...."
When you were here before. Couldn't look you in the eye. You're just like an angel. Your skin makes me cry Thom Yorke
What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it. C. S. Lewis
Janet Evanovich quote: "You need teeth like mine!" Grandma said. "You can just mail..."
You need teeth like mine!" Grandma said. "You can just mail 'em to the dentist! Janet Evanovich
Rod Stewart quote: "Someone like you makes it hard to live without somebody else"
Someone like you makes it hard to live without somebody else Rod Stewart
Ivy Compton-Burnett quote: "People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why..."
People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's. Ivy Compton-Burnett
Socializing is more positive than being alone, that’s why meetings are so popular. People don’t like being alone. That would be, however, an important skill to learn... Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do. Frances Hodgson Burnett
Dan Brown quote: "Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling..."
Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel. Dan Brown
One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody—not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms—had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as for comfort, reassurance and other infantile needs). Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than... Christopher Hitchens
Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning. Muriel Spark

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