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Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife.
“You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
What mood is that?
Last-minute panic.”
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What mood is that?
Last-minute panic.”
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“Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.”
― Les Miserables
― Les Miserables
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.”
― Any Number Can Play
― Any Number Can Play
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