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And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would have to employ two people just to hold your trousers up. Terry Prachett
Anna Sewell quote: "It is good people who make good places"
It is good people who make good places Anna Sewell
We went back to the Ritz bar and Scriassine ordered two whiskies. I liked the taste; it was something different. And as for Scriassine, he, too, had the advantage of beinh new to me. The whole evening had been been unexpected, and it seemed to emit an ancient frangrance of youth. Long ago there had been nights that were unlike others; you would meet unknown people who would say unexpected thing. And, occasionally, something would happen. So many things had happened in the last five years - to... Simone de Beauvoir
Lauryn Hill quote: "See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they..."
See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part. Lauryn Hill
Naguib Mahfouz quote: "Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people..."
Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever. Naguib Mahfouz
Margery Allingham quote: "There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they..."
There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder. Margery Allingham
Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself. E. E. Cummings
Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred. Virginia Woolf
She knew all sorts of four letter words now; they just weren't the ones that most people considered foul language. Love. Help. Rape. Stop. Then. Jodi Picoult
We should leave people alone about their weight. Being skinny for a while (provided you actually eat food and don't take pills or smoke to get there) is a perfectly fine pastime. Everyone should try it once, like a super-short haircut or dating a white guy. Tina Fey
Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show. Terry Prachett
The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond predictably to rewards and punishments. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things? not merely industrious, but to love industry? not merely learned, but to love knowledge? not merely pure, but to love purity? not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice. John Ruskin
Thom Yorke quote: "There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us."
There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us. Thom Yorke
The Roman Emperor Julian, writing in the fourth century, regretted the progress of Christianity because it pulled people away from the Roman gods. He said, 'Atheism [I.e. the Christian faith!] has been specially advanced through the loving service rendered to strangers, and through their care for the burial of the dead. It is a scandal that there is not a single Jew who is a beggar, and that the godless Galileans care not only for their own poor but for ours as well; while those who belong to... John Piper

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