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Natasha, with a vigorous turn from her heel on to her toe, walked over to the middle of the room and stood still... Natasha took the first note, her throat swelled, her bosom heaved, a serious expression came into her face. She was thinking of no one and of nothing at that moment, and from her smiling mouth poured forth notes, those notes that anyone can produce at the same intervals, and hold for the same length of time, yet a thousand times leave us cold, and the thousand and first time... Leo Tolstoy
Zuckerman, sucker though he was for seriousness, was still not going to be drawn into a discussion about agents and editors. If ever there was a reason for an American writer to seek asylum in Red China, it would be to put ten thousand miles between himself and those discussions. Philip Roth
schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept that the family is the primary school for love. those of us who do not learn how to love among family are expected to experience love in romantic relationships. however this love often eludes us. Bell Hooks
This highest kind of truth is never something the artist takes as given. It's not his point of departure but his goal. Though the artist has beliefs, like other people, he realizes that a salient characteristic of art is its radical openness to persuasion. Even those beliefs he's surest of, the artist puts under pressure to see if they will stand. John Gardner
We all know - or at least we are told continuously - that we are a divided people. And we know there's a degree of truth in it. We have too often allowed our differences to prevail among us. We have too often allowed ambitious men to play off those differences for political gain. We have too often retreated behind our differences when no one really tried to lead us beyond them. Joe Biden
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. Thomas More
Michael Palin quote: "My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how..."
My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy. Michael Palin
This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other. Brad Pitt
It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that there are no race of people who talk about books, or, perhaps, who read books, so little as literary men. William Makepeace Thackeray
As with companions so with books. We may choose those which will make us better, more intelligent, more appreciative of the good and the beautiful in the world, or we may choose the trashy, the vulgar, the obscene, which will make us feel as though we've been 'wallowing in the mire. David O. McKay
What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift. Terry Brooks
Paulo Coelho quote: "When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in..."
When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do. Paulo Coelho
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are..."
We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature. Madeleine L'Engle
Anatole France quote: "Time deals gently only with those who take it gently."
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently. Anatole France
H. L. Mencken quote: "There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those..."
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind. H. L. Mencken

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