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William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of..."
She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world. William Makepeace Thackeray
Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever. Mark Helprin
Now that music is faithfully reproducible, musicians are not needed as once they were. And music itself has changed. Though small cadres of classicists keep the sacred and ineffable alive, they are under siege by coarse generations whose music is hardly as musical as a bus engine or a chain saw. Something must have occurred during their mothers' pregnancies. How else is it possible to explain that playing Bach keeps them away from public spaces the way iron spikes drive pigeons from cathedral... Mark Helprin
Albert Einstein quote: "Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation..."
Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none. Albert Einstein
If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together. F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Berger quote: "Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the..."
Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one. John Berger
Dan Brown quote: "Her eyes were olive green--incisive and clear."
Her eyes were olive green--incisive and clear. Dan Brown
This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and neither of the others took the least notice of her going, though she looked back once or twice, half hoping that they would call after her: the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot. At any rate I'll never go THERE again!' said Alice as she picked her way through the wood. "It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at... Lewis Carroll
Though it was bright sunshine everyone felt suddenly cold. The only two people present who seemed to be quite at their ease were Aslan and the Witch herself. It was the oddest thing to see those two faces - the golden face and the dead-white face so close together. Not that the Witch looked Aslan exactly in his eyes; Mrs Beaver particularly noticed this. C. S. Lewis
Arthur C. Clarke quote: "Overhead, and without any fuss, the stars were going out."
Overhead, and without any fuss, the stars were going out. Arthur C. Clarke
Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor. Ellen Goodman
If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time. Jane Austen
Malcolm X quote: "Only the mistakes were mine."
Only the mistakes were mine. Malcolm X
He had been taught by his uncle that his prayers were more acceptable to God if he said them in his nightshirt than if he waited till he was dressed. This did not surprise him, for he was beginning to realize that he was the creature of a God who appreciated the discomfort of his worshipers. W. Somerset Maugham
Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer. W. Somerset Maugham

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