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There was a time in the ancient world - a very long time - in which the central cultural problem must have seemed an inexhaustible outpouring of books. Where to put them all? How to organize them on the groaning shelves? How to hold the profusion of knowledge in one's head? The loss of this plenitude would have been virtually inconceivable to anyone living in its midst. Then, not all at once but with the cumulative force of a mass extinction, the whole enterprise came to an end. What looked... Stephen Greenblatt
I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the rollers. Just think about it for a minute. Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, 'Right, lads! Another twenty like that, plus some lintels and maybe a... Bill Bryson
The heart can think of no devotion. Greater than being shore to the ocean-Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition. Robert Frost
...decisions were often made because of ideology and politics. As a result many wrong-headed actions were taken, ones that did not solve the problem at hand but that fit with the interests or beliefs of the people in power. Joseph Stiglitz
Education,’ one of R’s teachers taught, ‘teaches you not to be yourself.’ But who is yourself? R decided if it or he wasn’t blood, it wasn’t anything. Kathy Acker
And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. You never had it before and now you have it. What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and... Ernest Hemingway
But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." ~Albus Dumbledor J. K. Rowling
Roberto Bolano quote: "Only great challenges make it worthwhile to pack up and move..."
Only great challenges make it worthwhile to pack up and move all one's books. Roberto Bolano
Thomas Moore quote: "But anyone who deliberately tries to get himself elected to a..."
But anyone who deliberately tries to get himself elected to a public office is permanently disqualified from holding one. Thomas Moore
I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole. Mitch Albom
Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a small cloud of telepathic butterflies, and one of these brushed the cheek of Dwayne Hoover, nine miles away. Kurt Vonnegut
The strange thing on looking back was the purity, the integrity of her feeling for Sally. It was not like one's feeling for a man. Virginia Woolf
Judiciously show a cat, milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day. Charles Dickens
Tom Robbins quote: "Of our nine planets, Saturn is the one that looks like fun."
Of our nine planets, Saturn is the one that looks like fun. Tom Robbins
I am well aware that one can't get along without domineering or being served. Every man needs slaves as he needs fresh air. Commanding is breathing - you agree with me? And even the most destitute manage to breathe. Albert Camus

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