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“Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.”

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William Goldman is an American novelist born on August 12, 1931. His works are known for their humor, wit, and profound social insight, with notable titles including 'The Maltese Falcon' and 'The Shawshank Redemption'. more

“I wanted more of her, & no matter what happened between us, I already knew I’d never forget anything about her. As crazy as it sounded, she was becoming part of me, & I was already dreading the fact that we wouldn’t be able to spend the day together tomorrow. Or the day after, or the day after that. Maybe, I told myself, we could beat the odds”

Matter Facts Able Wanted Together Forget Happened Crazy Becoming Tomorrow Beats No Matter What Never Forget Odds

Book:Dear John

Source: Dear John

“My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.”

Eye Fear Behinds Decided Terror Flash Quake

Book:The Demon's Lexicon

Source: The Demon's Lexicon

“So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.”

Way Mind May Mean Ideas Process Taken Ready Educated Variety Conception Emergencies Liability Vicissitudes Lack Of Education Educated Mind

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“I've got four dogs, and I just don't do dog doo. I'm a diva when it comes to that.”

Four Dog

Author:Kobe Bryant

“Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.”

Thinking Lying Meditation Shapes Conscious Argument Surface Regions Discourse

Book:Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott

Source: Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott

“Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm.”

Trying Art Ideas Dream Draws Resources Wings Checks Enthusiasm Judgement New Ideas Our Dreams Ardor

Book:The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

Source: The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

“We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.”

Spirit Return Pressure Conformity Compliment Cowardly

Book:The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

Source: The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

“The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.”

Effort Rewards

Author:Antonin Sertillanges

“... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.”

Left Loses Cities Knowing Minutes Listening Storm

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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