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“We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.”

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Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and thinker, a prominent representative of 19th-century Russian literature. His works deeply revealed social contradictions and human nature, and had a profound impact on the world. more

“When it comes to girls (and in Colin's case, it so often did), everyone has a type. Colin Singleton's type was not physical but linguistic: he liked Katherines. And not Katies or Kats or Kitties or Cathys or Rynns or Trinas or Kays or Kates or, god forbid, Catherines. K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E. He had dated 19 girls. All of them had been named Katherine. And all of them- every single solitary one- had dumped him.”

Girl Cases Type Solitary Kate Katie Dumped Kitties Colin Singleton

Book:An Abundance of Katherines

Source: An Abundance of Katherines

“Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.”

Ifs Modern Behave Hideous Deformity

Author:Frank Zappa

“There is no love, there is only the lie we tell ourselves that things are more important than they actually are, that our lives will have meaning beyond all the other lives that have come before us and been forgotten, that there is hope in any of this.”

Important Lying Our Lives Forgotten No Love There Is Hope Lies We Tell Ourselves

Author:Chad Kultgen

“And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.”

Ifs Facts Good And Bad Perks Perks Of A Wallflower

Book:The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

“Is everything a joke to you?” I asked. He dabbed his tongue to his lip again. “Not everything.” “Like what?” “You.”

Jokes Lips Tongue

Book:The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

“These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.”

Inspirational Bigs Motivational America Europe Baseball Usa Parks Gothic Cathedrals Ballparks

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.”

Thinking Knows Kind Home Know How Violence Security Patterns Familiar Cruelty Oppression Cages

Book:Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World

Source: Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World

“…find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.”

Protect

Book:Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World

Source: Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World

“Biological clock? I don't even own a watch.”

Watches Clock Biological Clock

Book:Milkrun

Source: Milkrun

“I keep myself busy. Time goes faster that way.”

Way Busy Faster

Book:The Time Traveler's Wife

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

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