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Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism… — Jonathan Franzen
Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the… — P.D. James
Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them.… — Terry Pratchett
Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did… — Jane Austen
To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily,… — Richard Rohr
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. — Aldous Huxley
To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love. — Jane Austen
Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I… — Gideon Defoe
We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When… — James Redfield
I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but… — Jim Butcher
And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the slick beauty of… — Dorianne Laux
That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living. In a few minutes we’ll be worrying about names for the children. — Audrey Niffenegger
No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to be religious." "No… — Hermann Hesse
They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test… — Emily Dickinson
But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness — John Green
Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination. — Anthony Burgess
This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to… — Jack Kornfield
He also tried to block the doorway when she left him. My mother ducked under his arm, ran to her car, and drove away. I… — Sloane Crosley
I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life. — Peter Cameron
The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It… — Rob Sheffield
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none… — Theodore Roosevelt
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. — Thomas Hardy

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