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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know…
— Winston Churchill
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April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will…
— Daniel Defoe
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After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which…
— Rohinton Mistry
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Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There…
— Robert Henri
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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize…
— C.S. Lewis
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How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue...and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the…
— Rita Rudner
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The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting…
— Marcel Duchamp
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Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and…
— Malcolm Lowry
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[A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room.…
— Isaac Asimov
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Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions…
— Marilynne Robinson
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In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of…
— John Irving
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If you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ's body...every addition to…
— C.S. Lewis
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There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden…
— Alice Hoffman
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I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and…
— Stephen Fry
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Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.
— Lloyd Alexander
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I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.
— Daniel Handler
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