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“I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another”

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John Lennon, born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, England, and died on December 8, 1980. He was a founding member of the iconic rock band The Beatles, known for his unique musical talent and his advocacy for peace and anti-war ideas. more

“The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one's responses are isolated, one'sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity.”

“At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.”

“Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe”

Feels Cases Betray Woe Traitor Treason

Author:William Shakespeare

“To the extent that I am genuinely educated, I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes and the average pedagogue teaches.”

People Believe Average Suspicious

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The soul is the weariest part of the body.”

Soul Body Parts Of The Body

Book:The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House

Source: The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House

“Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen.”

Years Kind Made Happens Regard Errors Port Regularity Another Year

Book:Collected stories, 1939-1976

Source: Collected stories, 1939-1976

“The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over.”

Writing Long Book Eye Night Reading Found Difficult Tired Sentences His Eyes Reading Books Closed Eyes

Author:Daniel Handler

“Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.”

Reality Values Written Letters Captured Slipping One Hundred Years Of Solitude Slipping Away

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.”

People Done Waiting Complaining

Author:Charles Bukowski

“There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.”

Eye Realizing Brain Staring Introspection Self-examination Look At Yourself In The Mirror

Author:Charles Bukowski

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