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“If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.”

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Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss is an American author born on August 18, 1974. Her works are known for their unique narrative style and profound insights into human emotions. more

“What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of it, the pre-formations passed down by generation after generation, the ready-made language not only of the tongue but also of the sensations and the feelings.”

Way Made Feelings Form Life Is Language Cutting Generations Ready Assuming Tongue Sensations Divided Formation Mistrust Sameness Recurring

Author:Robert Musil

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”

People Book Wish Somewhere Else

Author:Mark Twain

“So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.”

Turns Virtue Goodness Desdemona

Author:William Shakespeare

“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”

People Use Success Values Wealth Impossible Standards Impression Admire Underestimate Measurement Value Of Life True Value

Book:Freud Verbatim

Source: Freud Verbatim

“There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.”

Terrible Metaphor Alcohol Sameness Euphoria

Book:The Letters of John Cheever

Source: The Letters of John Cheever

“People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary terms, it is as likely to do us in as to help us along.”

People Humans Helping Term Planets Marvelous Adaptation Human Intelligence Marvelous Things

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“I guess there are never enough books.”

Writing Book Enough

Book:The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights

Source: The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights

“Feathertail... No, don't leave me!”

Leaving Me Don't Leave Me

Author:Erin Hunter

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