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John Steinbeck quote: "Courage and fear were one thing too."
Courage and fear were one thing too. John Steinbeck
Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do (...) Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first... Leo Tolstoy
For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did. Hilaire Belloc
Hideo," said my mother, in the terrifying way women have of passing without interval from one subject to another because they have them all present in their mind at once, "you haven't found any kind of relationship? Ursula K. Le Guin
He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric. George Eliot
There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation...is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral...that it is a duty and a virtue. John Adams
I had already seen the end of fall come through boyhood, youth and young manhood, and in one place you could write about it better than in another. That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things. Ernest Hemingway
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness..."
The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness and every one must choose his side. Gilbert K. Chesterton
...we could think or feel as we wished toward the characters, or as the poet, discounting history, invited us to; we were the poet's guest, his world was his own kingdom, reached, as one of the poems told us, through the 'Ring of Words'... Janet Frame
Lloyd Alexander quote: "Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that..."
Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have. Lloyd Alexander
An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives. Christopher Hitchens
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. Edith Wharton
Nicholas Sparks quote: "Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes..."
Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever. Nicholas Sparks
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired. George Bernard Shaw
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to..."
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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