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“Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.”
― William Battie

“The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual.
Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.”
― John Cleese

“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

And when you have reached the mountaintop,then you shall begin to climb.

And when the earth shal claim your limbs,then shall you truly dance.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.”
― Steinbeck John

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
― Harry S. Truman

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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

“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

“A billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion seconds ago, the Beatles changed music. A billion Coca-Colas ago was yesterday morning. —Robert Goizueta, chief executive of the Coca-Cola Company, April 1997”
― Tom Standage, A History of the World in 6 Glasses

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“I've decided I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty is just too good to pass up.”
― Christopher McCandless

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
― Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.”
― Mandy Hale

“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
― Clive James

“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 2nd Series