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“If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness.”
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“We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library”
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“To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.”
― The Tempest
― The Tempest
“Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
“A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.”
― Still Life with Woodpecker
― Still Life with Woodpecker
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