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“There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.”

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Gregory Maguire is an American novelist known for his reinterpretation of classic fairy tales. His works are characterized by profound moral implications and rich imagination, which have won him a wide audience. more

“It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This is what it would be like when I had my own shop, or when I traveled abroad. I would always read before sleeping. One day, I'd be so rich I would have a library full of novel to choose from. But I would always end the evening with a Bible passage.”

Wells Ends Would Be My Own Sleep Novel Rich One Day All Things Library Evening Shops Passages Grandfather Traveled Good Day Before Sleeping

Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

“When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them”

People Sometimes Too Much And Love

Author:Tana French

“The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty years there will be no one to remember our silly war, Caroline’s wasted ammunition, my year of zombic survivalism, Rene DesCartes’s musings, or Michelangelo’s sculptures. And that is really only the sadness here as I drink a thousand-dollar bottle of wine down here in the cellar: We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.”

Years War Remember Dies Wish Sadness Drink Thousand Wine Dollars Silly Bottles Sixty Sculpture Cellars Musings Ammunition Bottles Of Wine

Author:John Green

“The temple is holy because it is not for sale.”

Holy Temples

Author:Ezra Pound

“When we gaze at a star in the Milky Way which is 50,000 light-years away from our sun, we are looking back 50,000 years in time." "The idea is much too big for my little head." "The only way we can look out into space, then, is to look back in time. We can never know what the universe is like now. We only know what it was like then. When we look up at a star that is thousands of light-years away, we are really traveling thousands of years back in the history of space.”

Knows Way Years Looks Littles Ideas Bigs Light Universe Stars Space Sun Look Up Looking Back Back In Time Milky Way Light Years

Author:Jostein Gaarder

“The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history”

Courses Inability Outliers

Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.”

Has Beens Moving Used Cutting Roots Come Up Chess Boards Association Knights Good Writers Pawns

Author:Ezra Pound

“The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.”

Language Process Elements Black History Truest

Book:What the Twilight Says: Essays

Source: What the Twilight Says: Essays

“There are no kinder or better people in the world than those who listen to you when you are 18.”

People World Kinder

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor. Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something. But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant.”

Wells Creativity Creative Return Elements Restaurants Endeavor Boundless Buffets

Author:Vera Nazarian

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