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I’m certain I carry my mama and papa in my cells, but also the lavender, the orange blossoms, my mother’s sheets, my grandmother’s calculated footsteps, the toasted pecans, the clunk of the treacherous tile, the sugar caramelizing, the ...more
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Nikolai Gogol
“And long afterwards, in moments of the greatest merriment, there would rise before him the figure of the little clerk with the balding brow, uttering his penetrating words: "Let me be. Why do you offend me?" --and in these penetrating words rang other words: "I am your brother." And the poor young man would bury his face in his hands, and many a time in his life he shuddered to see how much inhumanity there is in man, how much savege coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners, and God! even in a man the world regards as noble and honorable.”
Gogol Nicolai, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

Lina Kostenko
“На світі можна жить без еталонів,
по-різному дивитися на світ:
широкими очима,
з-під долоні,
крізь пальці,
у кватирку,
з-за воріт.
Від того світ не зміниться нітрохи.
А все залежить від людських зіниць -
в широких відіб'ється вся епоха,
у звужених - збіговисько дрібниць.”
Lina Kostenko

Nora Ephron
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”
Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

Paula Poundstone
“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
Paula Poundstone

Nadine Gordimer
“I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.”
Nadine Gordimer

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