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“I’m gettin’ tired way past where sleep rests me.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”
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“If literary research is like marriage (a mind entwined with the tastes, whims, and thoughts of another for years) and ordinary reading is like dating (a mind entwined with another for a limited, pleasure-governed but intimate time), then Internet reading often resembles gazing from a second-floor window at the passersby on the street below.”
― Digimodernism: How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern and Reconfigure Our Culture
― Digimodernism: How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern and Reconfigure Our Culture
“Most of the problems of the world stem from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don't ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence.”
― The Forty Rules of Love
― The Forty Rules of Love
“Let him who has not a single speck of migration to blot his family escutcheon cast the first stone...if you didn't migrate then your father did, and if your father didn't need to move from place to place, then it was only because your grandfather before him had no choice but to go, put his old life behind him in search of the bread that his own land denied him...”
― The Notebook
― The Notebook
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