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Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of… — Alan Bennett
But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries… — Sidney Poitier
I know it’s stupid to not own a gun yet have so many triggers, but in some other world gigantic seashells hold humans to their… — Jeffrey McDaniel
When conversion takes place, the process of revelation occurs in a very simple way — a person is in need, he suffers, and then somehow… — Seraphim Rose
Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities. — Tom Hodgkinson
It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she… — Betty Smith
That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and… — Orson Scott Card
We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices… — Stanislaw Lem
Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds,… — Jorge Luis Borges
It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem, some part of… — Ann M. Martin
There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my… — Hermann Hesse
The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a… — Laura Whitcomb
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world - that… — Paul Ricoeur
You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you… — Diana Wynne Jones
Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow… — Terry Pratchett
Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent… — John Steinbeck
Is there anything on earth which would have meaning and would even change the course of events not only on earth, but in other worlds?”… — Daniil Kharms
There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both. — Emile M. Cioran
Where are the leaders?' Sapphique asked. 'In the fortresses,' the swan replied. 'And the poets?' 'Lost in dreams of other worlds.' 'And the craftsmen?' 'Forging… — Catherine Fisher
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be,… — Anna Quindlen
As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes… — Isabel Allende
The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other… — Gail Caldwell
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics.… — Michael Crichton
There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A… — Umberto Eco
There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does… — Graham Swift

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