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• What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.

  Hermann Hesse

  Spring, Intellectual, World

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• If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

  Philip Pullman

  Hard Work, Want Something, Risk

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• Including a mention of your impressive record....The man who had penetrated and copied over a thousand techniques.. Kakashi the mirror ninja.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Men, Mirrors, Technique

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• A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

  Daniel Pennac

  Book, Wells, Chosen

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• A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists. Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.

  Vera Nazarian

  Song, Voice, Unity

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• Pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know.

  Charles Bukowski

  Girl, Jobs, Wall

  Charles Bukowski, “Pull A String, A Puppet Moves”

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• So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

  Roberto Bolano

  Cheer, Honesty, Fun

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• The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone, Corkey Romano, and A Night at the Roxbury, leading me to believe not only do I have awful taste in films, but I also have a Chris Kattan fixation. What I don't have is $4000 earing intrest in a money market account.

  Jen Lancaster

  Believe, Night, Dvds

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• Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?

  Richard Paul Evans

  Children, Responsibility, Parenting

  Richard Paul Evans (2001). “The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• The only other scenario that could explain everything, up to and including your own bizarre apperance, is a convoluted conspiracy theory involving the Russian Mafia and a crack team of plastic surgeons.

  Eoin Colfer

  Team, Mafia, Cracks

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• A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Garden, Natural, Should

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy.

  David Bohm

  Sea, Space, Energy

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• Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France.

  John Ashbery

  Want, France

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• This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or from a book. It takes your whole being to do it—your eyes and your ears, your brain and your heart. Maybe your heart most of all. —Bobby Goodspeed

  James Howe

  Book, Heart, School

  James Howe (2011). “The Misfits”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one's art. One must accept it.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Believe, Men

  Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (2009). “Seven Nights”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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• Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.

  Michael Crichton

  Years, Growth, United States

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• I've a pocket full of dreams to sell," said Teddy, whimsically,... "What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? A dream of success--a dream of adventure--a dream of the sea--a dream of the woodland--any kind of a dream you want at reasonable prices, including one or two unique little nightmares. What will you give me for a dream?

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dream, Adventure, Unique

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Emily Climbs”, p.253, Booklassic

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• They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

  Tim O'Brien

  Bears, Silent, Terrible

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.

  Azar Nafisi

  Dancing, Mind, Brutality

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.76, Random House

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• Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Numbers, Disease, Causes

  Abbie Hoffman (1971). “The "steal Yourself Rich" Book”

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• So everything we believe about happiness is wrong," I said. He nodded. Everything?" I asked, when what I meant was, Everything? Including you? Including me? And Marcus, being Marcus, knew what I really wanted to know, and answered my silent, more significant question. He held up his hand to shield the rays and looked me in the eyes. Almost.

  Megan McCafferty

  Believe, Eye, Hands

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• I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Long, Miracle, Sound

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Feb 12, 2017

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• Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the goat’s back and drove it out, and the city was cleansed. It worked because everyone knew how to read the ritual, including the gods. Then the gods died, and all of a sudden you had to cleanse the city without divine help. Real actions were demanded instead of symbolism The censor was born, in the Roman sense. Watchfulness became the watchword: the watchfulness of all over all. Purgation was replaced by the purge.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Religious, Real, Practice

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• Toward the end of their relationship she'd told him once, "I wish I could give you what you're looking for, but I don't know what it is. There's a part of you that you keep closed off from everyone, including me. Its as if I'm not the one you're really with. Your mind is on someone else." He tried to deny it, but she didn't believe him. "I'm a woman - I know these things. When you look at me sometimes, I know you're seeing someone else. Its like you keep waiting for her to pop out of thin air to take you away from all this.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Air, Giving

  Nicholas Sparks (2014). “The Notebook: Student edition”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• Some of the fae have an odd idea of bride send-offs," he explained "including, according to Zee, kidnapping." "I forgot about that." And I was appalled because I knew better. "Bran and Samuel are probably more of a danger than any of the fae," I told him. "Someday, I'll tell you about some of the more spectaculare wedding antics Samuel's told me about." Some of them made kidnapping look mild.

  Patricia Briggs

  Ideas, Looks, Fae

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