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Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried. Robert A. Heinlein
What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day. Thomas Harris
Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book. Ray Bradbury
Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God. Blaise Pascal
E. B. White quote: "It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is..."
It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible. E. B. White
What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our eyes up to the hills. Most of the time we decide the critical things while looking at the linoleum floor of an institutional corridor, or whispering hurriedly in a waiting room with a television blatting nonsense. Thomas Harris
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world..."
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless. Vladimir Nabokov
Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished. Tacitus
I don't care if we don't sleep at all tonight, Let's just fix this whole thing now. I swear to God we're gonna get it right. If you lay your weapon down. Red wine and ambien. You're talking shit again. It's heartbreak warfare. John Mayer
It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts. Louisa May Alcott
All the rabbit in us is to disappear-the worried, conscientious, ethical rabbit as well as the cowardly and sensual rabbit. We shall bleed and squeal as the handfuls of fur come out; and then, surprisingly, we shall find underneath it a thing we have never yet imagined: a real Man, an ageless god, a son of God, strong, radiant, wise, beautiful, and drenched in joy. C. S. Lewis
People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart, or kill your heart, or you can choose between the two realities. There is much pain here. Some people think you can have your cake and eat it. The cake goes mouldy and they choke on what's left. Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they... Jeanette Winterson
Kazuo Ishiguro quote: "As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop..."
As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things Kazuo Ishiguro
I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish. Jimmy Buffett
Barry Unsworth quote: "I was born for better things."
I was born for better things. Barry Unsworth

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