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Haruki Murakami quote: "Grammar is like the air: someone higher up might try to set..."
Grammar is like the air: someone higher up might try to set rules for its use, but people won't necessarily follow them. Haruki Murakami
Or rather, it made him into two people. He was by nature a cheerful almost irrepressible person with a great zest for life. He loved good talk and physical activity. He had a deep sense of humour and a great capacity for making friends. But from now onwards there was to be a second side, more private but predominant in his diaries and letters. This side of him was capable of bouts of profound despair. More precisely, and more closely related to his mother's death, when he was in this mood he... Humphrey Carpenter
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights...How wonderful it was when one sentence followed logically from the sentence before!...There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Jeffrey Eugenides
For her, everyday was the same, and when each day is the same as next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day the sun rises. Paulo Coelho
Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. Bertrand Russell
Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. Malcolm Gladwell
What is a self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue. Picture Satan in a business suit, with well-groomed horns and a superbly switching tail, sitting at his huge executive's desk, thinking, 'Aha! If I can substitute images for reality I can get a lot more people under my domination. Madeleine L'Engle
I've always thought there are two ways of getting what you wanted in life. Forcing people to give it to you, or making them want to give it to you. Candace Bushnell
Bret Easton Ellis quote: "I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of..."
I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too. Bret Easton Ellis
Anne Frank quote: "I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly..."
I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank
I haven't come to the theater to hear about other people's probelms. I've come to be taken out of myself, and, preferably, not put back again. Michael Frayn
You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they? Terry Prachett
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. Like many millions of people, I am a bastard child of history. Perhaps we all are, black and brown and white, leaking into one another, as a character of mine once said, like flavours [sic] when you cook Salman Rushdie
And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It climbs the same way on damp walls. You are to blame for this cruel sport. They are fleeing from my dark lair. You fill everything, you fill everything. Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy, and they are more used to my sadness than you are. Now I want them to say what I want to say to youto make you hear as I want you to hear me. Pablo Neruda
E. M. Forster quote: "It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to..."
It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth. E. M. Forster

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