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“Uva uvum vivendo varia fit”

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American novelist known for his profound portrayal of life in the American Southwest. His works, including 'Lolita' and 'The Lonesome Dove', have won numerous Pulitzer Prizes. more

“Among the real heroines in the world who will come into the Church are women who are more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish. These real heroines have true humility, which places a higher value on integrity than on visibility. Remember, it is as wrong to do things just to be seen of women as it is to do things to be seen of men. Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.”

Source: Blueprints for living: perspectives for Latter-day Saint women

“Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn't see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.”

Made Two Next Hours Memories Tomorrow Hundred Filled Distance Holes Horizon Yards

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.”

Painful Active

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.”

Nations Process Freedom Liberty Wonder Media Expression Calling Limits Concern Police Censorship Dissent Censoring Censorship In Books Censoring Books Thought Police

Book:Writing in restaurants

Source: Writing in restaurants

“Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.”

Ifs Way Feels Sometimes Matter No Matter What Fixed

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“Don't let the muggles get you down.”

Hogwarts Magic Harry Potter Muggles

Book:Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.”

Ifs Knows Might Fool One Day Repeats Convince Being Sad

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

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