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“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
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“32 Another study concluded that literary fiction “uniquely engages the psychological processes needed to gain access to characters’ subjective experiences.”33 That’s to say, if you read novels, you can probably read emotions, vital skills for forming cooperative societies.”
― Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
― Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
“But what worries me is not your shooting me, because after all, for people like us it's a natural death." He laid his glasses on the bed and took off his watch and chain. "What worries me," he went on, "is that out of so much hatred for the military, out of fighting them so much and thinking about them so much, you've ended up as bad as they are. And no ideal in life is worth that much baseness.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?”
― Life
― Life
“October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and gold and crimson, and all the lassitudes of August have seeped out of your blood, and you are full of ambition. It is a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful. The names of the subjects all seem to lay open the way to a new world. Your arms are full of new, clean notebooks, waiting to be filled. You pass the doors of the library, and the smell of thousands of well-kept books makes your head swim with a clean and subtle pleasure.”
― The Seven Storey Mountain
― The Seven Storey Mountain
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