“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
“Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?”
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“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
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