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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated… — Virginia Woolf
It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of… — Daniel Handler
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. — Bertrand Russell
The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast… — J. Michael Straczynski
Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now… — Jack Kerouac
Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it… — Jason Mraz
The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the… — Romain Rolland
Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can… — Ansel Adams
He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake. — Lisa See
These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words… — Walter Mosley
History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't… — Kim Stanley Robinson
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect… — Cormac McCarthy
Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a significant change is… — John Twelve Hawks
Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists. — John Updike
I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were… — Octavio Paz
Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was… — Margaret Weis
What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged?… — Libba Bray
I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it,… — Madeleine L'Engle
There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places. — Tamora Pierce
We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth… — Mervyn Peake
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a… — Henry Miller
A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire. — Paul Verlaine
Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of… — Virginia Woolf
Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential… — Norman Vincent Peale

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