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“the world is much stranger than we know or can say. And I know how you think, or how you like to… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The market performs miracles so routinely that we take it for granted. Supermarkets provide 30,000 choices at rock-bottom prices. We take it… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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There's not a day I live that doesn't start with me getting up and first saying, "What can I do for somebody… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the hands of [God's] children, it is food for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, raiment for the naked. it gives… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
A trouble with poetry is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When we smile, the muscles around our mouth are stretched and relaxed, just like doing yoga. Smiling is mouth yoga. We release… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Talk to strangers when the family fails and friends lead you astray when Buddha laughs and Jesus weeps and it turns out… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
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The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I get goose-bumps when you talk about Diane Wilson. Who knows where she found that courage? When she was a child, she… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
“Harold walked with these strangers and listened. He judged no one, although as the day wore on, and time and places began… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
You've got the people you know, which are problematic. Always. They're rich but they're also real people living their lives alongside you.… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, each of us was somebody's kid. Everyone had a father, even if he never provided anything more than… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go in Pakistan and Afghanistan, I am touched by the fierce desire for education, and the outpouring of hospitality and… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
If we become uncomfortable in any given moment, we can look at a flower, a pebble in the street or the tire… — Barry Neil Kaufman Copy Share Image
There are among us those that would criticize our Confederate ancestors. Would you allow a stranger to come into your house and… — Calvin Johnson Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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Then it's settled," Harriet said. "We shall work out the smaller roles later.""What about you?" Elizabeth demanded."Oh, I'm going to be the… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another… — R.K. Narayan Copy Share Image
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I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Many of us are returning from a long journey during which we were forced to search for things that were of no… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
That books, a commodity little changed since Caxton's day, should have turned out to be the trailblazers of retailing on the internet… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
A couple you do not recognize - visitors, strangers - come to the door. How are you to view these people and… — Thomas G. Long Copy Share Image
You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a child,… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
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