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“When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.”
― Jean Fritz

“I am quite sane, according to my three distinct personalities and my seven passive ones.”
― The Paper Doll

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, Arthur

“God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.”
― Garrison Keillor , Happy to Be Here

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”
― Jane Austen

“If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment”
― Neale Donald Walsch

“There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“Writing:
It starts at the keyboard,
and it ends at the far corners of the universe. --Paako”
― Vincent Lowry, Constellation Chronicles: The Lost Civilization of Aries

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“What we understand is that society must allow room for the irrational, in healthy balance with the rational.”
― Robin Robertson, The Bacchae

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light.”
― Hellen Keller

“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
― Helen Keller

“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
― Helen Keller

“When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“I was once asked to pick a couple of records for an interview I was doing on Radio 2. I picked one by Will Oldham and one by Joanna Newsom. Someone on the production phoned me to say that I couldn't have either record because they were 'too alternative' and I could just pick two from their playlist. Now, personally, I think that Radio 2's listeners would dig both Joanna Newsom and Will Oldham if they heard their records, and that the fact they don't get to hear them contributes to the cultural wasteland we live in. I told them that I'd been to see Joanna Newsom in the Albert Hall a couple of weeks before and it had been sold out. How could she be 'too alternative'?
'Alternative' and 'mainstream' aren't strictly to do with whether things are popular or minority interest. They are ideological labels. Someone like Joe Pasquale would be called 'mainstream' and regularly pops up on TV, but would play the smaller end of the touring-theatre circuit. If Joanna Newsom can sell out Albert Hall, why can't she get played on Radio 2? I would agree that it's because her work is too layered, challenging and interesting. Think about that. What you get to hear about is filtered, and not filtered to get rid of useless cunts like Joe Pasquale, but of things that might enrich your life.”
― Frankie Boyle, Work! Consume! Die!

“words are important. No words at all are the hardest to hear”
― J. Yates

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

“T.S. Elliot: “And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Quantum Lens

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“In books, that which is most generally interesting is what comes home to the most cherished private experience of the greatest number. It is not the book of him who has travelled the farthest over the surface of the globe, but of him who has lived the deepest and been the most at home.”
― Henry David Thoreau, The Quotable Thoreau

“Life without playing music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music, I get most joy in life out of music.”
― Albert Einstein

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde