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“The song instantly insisted it'd never existed.”

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David Mitchell is a British novelist known for his unique narrative techniques and profound humanistic concerns. His works often blend humor, satire, and philosophical thinking, winning him a wide audience. more

“...To free humanity of time. For time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that ages us, time that limits us. Think how often you have wished to have more time for something, or wished you could go back a day and do something differently. When humanity is freed of time, old wrongs can be corrected before they are done.”

Thinking Done Age Humanity Limits All Time More Time

Author:Robin Hobb

“In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.”

People Trying Used Nations Circles Squares Satisfying Schemes Old Time

Book:The Essential Samuel Butler

Source: The Essential Samuel Butler

“Useless to worry until we find outselves blocked. ... If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand still and worry.”

Ifs Way May Stills Happens Worry Useless Blocked

Book:Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy

Source: Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy

“I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.”

Needs Important Truth Pieces Majors Embrace Including Compassionate Honored Gracious

Book:The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings

Source: The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings

“Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.”

Charm Traps Steel

Book:The Luxe

Source: The Luxe

“Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry? Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head—even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Writing Doe Ends Ability Failing Mines Succeed Angry Glimpse Make You Think Good Writing

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.”

Together Love Is Greater Increase Mathematical Precision Love And Fear

Book:Now in November

Source: Now in November

“What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness?”

Madness Sanity

Book:Now in November

Source: Now in November

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