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Worldly Quotes (page 197)

It was so like Smith's work, so much more like the top of a strongly spiked wall than a head of hair, that the best of players at leap-frog might have declined him, as the most dangerous man in the world to go over. Charles Dickens
I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel? a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept. Horace Walpole
Tom Robbins quote: "If you want to change the world, change yourself."
If you want to change the world, change yourself. Tom Robbins
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Today our unsophisticated cameras record in their own way our..."
Today our unsophisticated cameras record in their own way our hastily assembled and painted world. Vladimir Nabokov
Leigh Hunt quote: "There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon..."
There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense. Leigh Hunt
Young man," he said, "understand this: there are two Londons. There's London Abovethat's where you livedand then there's London Belowthe Undersideinhabited by the people who fell through the cracks in the world. Now you're one of them. Good night. Neil Gaiman
a choleric, red-faced, pudgy hater of everything, who could turn on the warmest and most charming smile in the world when real life confronted him sweetly in the night. Jack Kerouac
To spend your days on such work when the world is chockful of amusing things. Life goes roaring by and you only hear the echo in your stuffy rooms. John Buchan
It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave. E. M. Forster
Salman Rushdie quote: "We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the..."
We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in. Salman Rushdie
I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour in the eyes of those whose opinion was more than that of all the world to me. Anne Bronte
The year is round! The wheel of the world must spin! That is why up here they dance the Dark Morris, to balance it. They welcome the winter because of the new summer deep inside it! Terry Prachett
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narrator’s mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, here’s... Richard Powers
One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest. J. R. R. Tolkien
Jiddu Krishnamurti quote: "It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order..."
It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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