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“Life being what it is, one dreams not of revenge. One just dreams.”

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Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer known for her unique narrative style and profound insights into social issues. Her works often focus on religion, family, and social change, and have won her a wide readership. more

“Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right and play right. The only way that works is to emotionally and technically act out and see the scene you're in. There's no better job in the world, because when I sit down at that computer I'm the world's best forensics expert, if that's what I'm writing about that day. Or I'm some crazed psycho running down a dark alley. Or I'm a gorgeous woman looking to find a man that night. Whatever! But I'm all of those things, every day. How can you beat that?”

“Where is the Life we lost in living?”

Lost

Author:T. S. Eliot

“I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth.”

World Feels Spirit This World Disappear

Book:War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Source: War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

“For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.”

Ifs Men

Author:Frank Sinatra

“Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.”

People Thinking Missing

Author:J. D. Salinger

“I believe I'm one of the loneliest people in the world.”

People World Believe I Believe

Author:Michael Jackson

“Sirius's gaunt face broke out into the first true smile Harry had seen upon it. The difference it made was startling, as though a person ten years younger were shining through the starved mask; for a moment he was recognizable as the man who had laughed at Harry's parents' wedding.”

Men Years Firsts Persons Made Moments Faces Parent Differences Ten Shining Broke Mask Laughed Sirius Shining Through

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Suppose there aren't any more A + days once you get to be twelve? Wouldn't that be something! To spend the rest of your life looking for an A + day and not finding it.”

Findings Twelve Rest Of Your Life

Author:Judy Blume

“You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does”

Doe Forget Greatness Goodness Guarantees Never Forget

Author:Sri Chinmoy

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