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In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, bringing you confidence and protection through the dark streets. Elizabeth Gilbert
There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. ... As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, although their words are by far the most decisive evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final. Learned Hand
Jodi Picoult quote: "That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way."
That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way. Jodi Picoult
This book, when I am dead, will be. A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way. Edna St. Vincent Millay
Herman Hesse quote: "In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood..."
In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other. Herman Hesse
There always comes in September a parched brightness to the air that hits Rabbit two ways, smelling of apples and blackboard dust and marking the return to school and work in earnest, but then again reminding him he's suffered another promotion, taken another step up the stairs that has darkness at the head. John Updike
Swami Vivekananda quote: "Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in,..."
Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others. Swami Vivekananda
John Braine quote: "There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you..."
There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it. John Braine
You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well. Jorge Luis Borges
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so that people understand, sympathize, see the universality of pain, and feel strengthened, if not directly encouraged to live on. If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a way that reflects the truth that, though we see the evil, we choose to continue among the living. The true artist [...] gets his sense... John Gardner
Gerry Spence quote: "The way people moveis their autobiography in motion."
The way people moveis their autobiography in motion. Gerry Spence
Whenever I can’t sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I’ve been assassinated. I’ve found this is the best way to get comfortable. I imagine I’m in the coffin at my funeral, and people from my past are walking by my corpse and making comments about my demise. Chuck Klosterman
All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a molecule of chlorophyll itself, what you get is one hundred thirty-six atoms of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen arranged in an exact and complex relationship around a central ring. At the ring's center is a single atom of magnesium. Now: If you remove the atom of magnesium and in its exact place put an atom of iron, you get a molecule of hemoglobin. The... Annie Dillard
Jodi Picoult quote: "If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite..."
If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it. Jodi Picoult
It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations. Bertrand Russell

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