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Maaike
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Als ik in het afgelopen jaar iets heb geleerd, zowel op school als thuis, dan is het wel dat dingen gewoon gebeuren en slimme mensen net zo dom kunnen doen als domme mensen. Dat hard werken en niet zeuren niet genoeg is. Je wordt er niet
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“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”
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“Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace. For awhile these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?'
That is a hard question,' said Candide.”
― Candide
That is a hard question,' said Candide.”
― Candide
“If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.”
― The World According to Garp
― The World According to Garp
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