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• A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Book, Fire, Apples

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• Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have."

  Mitch Albom

  Giving, Feelings, Dying

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.125, Broadway Books

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• She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak herb tea which is now her substitute for coffee. At one time she thought that she could not live without coffee, but it turned out that it is really the warm large mug she wants in her hands, that is the aid to thought or whatever it is she practices through the procession of hours, or of days.

  Alice Munro

  Coffee, Book, Hands

  Alice Munro (2011). “New Selected Stories”, p.421, Random House

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• Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Guarantees, Neglect, Ifs

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1955). “Gift from the Sea”

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• We must substitute courage for caution.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Caution

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.138, Beacon Press

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• Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Real, Chaos, Improvement

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books told you about that feeling. The books spoke of love, and it was wonderful to listen to them, but they were no substitute for love itself. They couldn't kiss her like Meggie, they couldn't hug her like Resa, they couldn't laugh like Mortimer. Poor books, poor Elinor.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Kissing, Laughing

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.114, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'm a substitute mom." "You're more like a crazy aunt who only gets called when somebody needs bailing out of jail.

  Ilona Andrews

  Mom, Crazy, Aunt

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.114, Penguin

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• This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.

  Aleister Crowley

  Taken, Complaining, Rambling

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.149, Weiser Books

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• Education is no substitute for intelligence.

  Frank Herbert

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.90, Penguin

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• Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.

  Mitch Albom

  Running, Brother, Men

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.

  Theodor Adorno

  Order, Feelings, Culture

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• Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Curiosity, Taught

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• Dancing may not be the perfect substitute for love, human love, but it certainly requires all the time and thought and energy that could otherwise be dedicated to love.

  Toni Bentley

  Dancing, Perfect, Energy

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• Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

  Steve Martin

  Encouraging, Uplifting, Persistence

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Nov 15, 2011

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• It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.

  Saul Bellow

  Husband, Hate, Practicals

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

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• It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.

  Ayn Rand

  Running, Kindness, Eye

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.781, Penguin

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• What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Limits, Belief

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• What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?

  James Joyce

  Wine, The End Of The Day, Drink

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• A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

  C. S. Lewis

  Journey, Men, People

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.142, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that pants for, and deserves to be respected. Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Pride, Men, Mind

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (1999). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.95, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Light, Belief, Seeing

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.91, Macmillan

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• Perhaps I fear him because I could love him again, and in loving him, I would come to need him, and in needing him, I would again be his faithful pupil in all things, only to discover that his patience for me is no substitute for the passion which long ago blazed in his eyes.

  Anne Rice

  Passion, Eye, Long Ago

  Anne Rice (2009). “The Vampire Armand: The Vampire Chronicles 6”, p.375, Random House

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• ...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.

  Richard Russo

  Answers

  Richard Russo (2017). “Empire Falls”, p.95, Atlantic Books

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• If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this chance to move beyond the surface of things, to understand - and you say, No, maybe not... What then? How do you explain the rest of your life to yourself? How do you pass the time until you die? Do you substitute for that an interest in what - eating? Do you spend the next sixty years trying to be fascinated by the act of breathing?

  Sebastian Faulks

  Moving, Years, Breathing

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