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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
― Lois Lowry