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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let…
— Lord Byron
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. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like…
— Franz Kafka
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If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or…
— John B. S. Haldane
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Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.
— William Shakespeare
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Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.
— John Milton
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When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty…
— George Orwell
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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears…
— Victor Hugo
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You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows…
— Horace Kephart
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Last week my tie caught on fire, some guy tried to put it out with an axe.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of wood with…
— Unknown Author
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