And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.
Gregory Maguire
No one is exempt from grief.
sorrow grief
People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us.. It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.
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Of course. You get everything from books.
reading knowledge wicked books
life book books
Brrr, who had never admired books particularly.. Didn't remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a yielding spine, he thought, and the nuances to be teased from its pages are nearly infinite in their variety and coquettish appeal. And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.
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Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.
death immortality sleeping cruelty waking insomnia
Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.
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(from the short story The Honorary Shepherds).. You can't be kicked out of a faith. Faith starts inside your heart and ends up in eternity. All you can be kicked out of is a building, which is the bus stop of faith, sort of, and what's a building?
faith
Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true.. We call it history.
history
Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history
history story
It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
politics history retirement
Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way.
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Approval is overrated.. Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.
inspirational
The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
mind memory memories
The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
mind thinking think mood
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