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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously, to allow what you're reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers, the so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only? Adrienne Rich
Why look'e, young gentleman," said Toby, "when a man keeps himself so very ex-clusive as I have done, and by that means has a snug house over his head with nobody a-prying and smelling about it, it's rather a starling thing to have the honour of a wisit from a young gentleman (however respectable and pleasant a person he may be to play cards with at conweniency) circumstanced as you are. Charles Dickens
I walked among Shadows, and found a race of furry creatures, dark and clawed and fanged, reasonably manlike, and about as intelligent as a freshman in the high school of your choice-sorry, kids, but what I mean is they were loyal, devoted, honest, and too easily screwed by bastards like me and my brother. I felt like the dee-jay of your choice. Roger Zelazny
I wanna get back. To the old days. When the phone would ring. And I knew it was you. I wanna talk back. And get yelled at. Fight for nothing. Like we used to. Oh kiss me. Like you mean it. Like you miss me. Cuz I know you do. I wanna get back, get back. I wanna get back, get back. I wanna get back, get back. Get Back Demi Lovato
Charles Bukowski quote: "If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing..."
If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind. Charles Bukowski
Jodi Picoult quote: "Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never..."
Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true. Jodi Picoult
He was interested in the sudden friendship between two women so apparently dissimilar as Miss Bartlett and Miss Lavish. They were always in each other's company, with Lucy a slighted third. Miss Lavish he believed he understood, but Miss Bartlett might reveal unknown depths of strangeness, though not, perhaps, of meaning. E. M. Forster
Mr. Langdon all questions were once spiritual. Since the beginning of time spirituality and religion have been called on to fill in the gaps that science did not understand. The rising and setting of the sun was once attributed to Helios and a flaming chariot. Earthquakes and tidal waves were the wrath of Poseidon. Science has now proven those gods to be false idols. Soon all gods will be proven to be false idols. Science has now provided answers to almost every question man can ask. There... Dan Brown
Though she knew even less about radios than about Southern Californians, there were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate. Thomas Pynchon
By all means," cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. "A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates!"There's not much of it left to storm," said Eilonwy. "Oh?" said Fflewddur, with disappointment. "Very well, we shall do the best we can. Lloyd Alexander
P. J. O'Rourke quote: "To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where..."
To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze. P. J. O'Rourke
I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't mean that we love only that which is best within us, but that we're also able to love that which is faltering, which is wounded, which is contradictory, incomplete. Bell Hooks
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides..."
Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me. Elizabeth Gilbert
Mitch Albom quote: "People are only mean when they are threatened."
People are only mean when they are threatened. Mitch Albom
Novalis quote: "To philosophize means to make vivid."
To philosophize means to make vivid. Novalis

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