“Please keep calling me a snowflake. I like being different than the next person. Every snowflake is unique. They all come from the same place, but are able to establish their own identities, free and clear of any other snowflake. Snowflakes make this world beautiful.”
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“Life is such that beginnings and endings are neither. For in fact, they perpetually lay the groundwork for the other.”
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“The novel integrates several forms of human intelligence - verbal intelligence (for the style), psychological intelligence (for the characters), logical intelligence (for the plot), spatial intelligence (for the symbolic and metaphorical content as well as the setting), and even musical intelligence (for pacing and rhythm.”
― 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
― 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
“On New Year's Eve the whole world celebrates the fact that a date changes.
Let us celebrate the dates on which we change the world.”
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Let us celebrate the dates on which we change the world.”
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