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“Go further than you planned. Ask for the moon: you will be surprised how often you get it”

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Paulo Coelho, born on August 24, 1947, is a renowned Brazilian author and lyricist. His works are characterized by profound philosophical thoughts and rich imagination, with his most famous novel being 'The Alchemist'. more

“Marry me. Nay, marriage will cost us precious moments together. Let us make sweet, passionate love right here. Let me bear your children.” A primal growl signaled Miss Lynn getting over her shock at being thus addressed. She lunged forward; Jack deftly rolled off the bench, jumping up out of her reach. “Goodness, I didn’t expect you to be quite this enthusiastic about my advances. If I don’t play hard to get, how will I ever know whether or not you respect me?”

“Indeed, what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless, its criminality is still affirmed by those who are eager to punish it. It is in such cases that the true genius lurking behind many of our laws stands revealed. The idea of a victimless crime is nothing more than a judicial reprise of the Christian notion of sin.”

Stills Ideas Christian Law Sin Behinds Cases Crime Genius Behavior Notion Judicial Lurking Criminality True Genius

Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.”

Wish Magic False Hope

Book:Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

Source: Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now — and we're going to try our hands at it.”

Source: Main Street

“Any other iron on you?” he asked impatiently. “Just my tongue stud.” His look was a mixture of curiosity and horror. “I’m kidding, you idiot. Let’s go.”

Looks Horror Curiosity Tongue Idiot Iron Mixtures Studs

Author:Kiersten White

“People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours.”

People World Built Ems Roof Caves

Author:David Mitchell

“The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy it was to trash your life. That was what was so scary. You just dragged the fan up to everything you had spent the years raking together and turned the motherfucker on.”

Years Firsts Real Together Easy Fans Terror Scary Realization Trash

Book:It

Source: It

“It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are not cute, I do not want to know you' was, to me, hardly different from suggesting 'because you are gay, I dislike you”

Knows Want Kind Different Gay Racism Prejudice Cute Sexism Dislike Behaviour Suggesting Snobbery

Book:The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography

Source: The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography

“Today is my grandfather's birthday." "How old is he?" "Sixty-three. It's hard to believe he was once a human being.”

Believe Humans Hard Today Three Human Beings Grandfather Sixty My Grandfather Hard To Believe

Author:Charles M. Schulz

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