Wonderful Words :: Haruki Murakami
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“I don’t know, there’s something about you. Say there’s an hourglass: the sand’s about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
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Wonderful Words :: Ralph Nader
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“There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.”
-Ralph Nader
Wonderful Words :: Steven Jay Gould
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“Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism–and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.”
-Steven Jay Gould
Wonderful Words :: Aimee Bender
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“I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.”
― Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Wonderful Words :: Maya Angelou
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“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
-Maya Angelou
Wonderful Words :: Stephen Jay Gould
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“Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.”
-Stephen Jay Gould
Wonderful Words :: Walt Whitman
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“Re-examine all you have been told…
Dismiss what insults your Soul.”
- Walt Whitman
Wonderful Words :: Annie Dillard
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“I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”
- Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)
Wonderful Words :: J.R.R. Tolkien
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“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien
Wonderful Words :: Gabriel García Márquez
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“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
Wonderful Words :: François de La Rochefoucauld
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“True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.”
-François de La Rochefoucauld
Wonderful Words :: Winston Churchill
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“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
-Winston Churchill
Wonderful Words :: Mohandas Gandhi
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“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
-Mohandas Gandhi
Wonderful Words :: Laurie Anderson
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“When my father died, it was like a whole library burned down.”
-Laurie Anderson
World Without End
Wonderful Words :: Annie Dillard
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“There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral…But I won’t have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous…more extravagant and bright. We are…raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.”
-Annie Dillard