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Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever…
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I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off…
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For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
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Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
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It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
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If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone
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One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to…
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Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman:…
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In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
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Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on…
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It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated…
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A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the…
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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to…
— Alfred Adler
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It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates…
— Hillary Clinton
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Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did…
— Janet Morris
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The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
— Homer
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What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.
— William Shakespeare
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The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
— Seneca the Younger
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
— Alexander Pope
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The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.
— Janet Morris
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Men make their own fates - it's personal, not a matter for debate.
— Janet Morris
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Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of…
— William Shakespeare
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One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they…
— Unknown Author
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The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems…
— Murray Kempton
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