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The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There… — Machado de Assis
For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he… — Cormac McCarthy
The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more… — C.S. Lewis
It turns out that one can perpetrate all manner of heinous villainy under a cloak of courtesy and good cheer. . .a man will forfeit… — Christopher Moore
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left by sunset. Even… — Khalil Gibran
A journey may be long or short, but it must start at the very spot one finds oneself. — Jim Stovall
The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who… — Christopher Paolini
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time. — Thomas Jefferson
Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when the realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After… — Peter V. Brett
A man has to find a good woman, and when he finds her he has to win her love. then he has to earn her… — Gregory David Roberts
Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be… — Naomi Klein
Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded.… — J M Coetzee
The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the… — Brian Aldiss
...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs… — Jorge Amado
Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you. — Lewis Carroll
There is no moment that exceeds in beauty that moment when one looks at a woman and finds that she is looking at you in… — Donald Barthelme
The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a… — Susan Sontag
Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy… — Shulamith Firestone
When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she… — Libba Bray
if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught… — T.H. White
A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. By John Maxwell — John C. Maxwell
Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples. — Victoria Alexander
I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world… — Hermann Hesse

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