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Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
© John Curley with CCLicense Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and...
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Quote for Today: Sherman Alexie
© YLev with CCLicense Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read?… “How many books never...
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Quote for Today: Susanna Clarke
Midnight Sun over Finland© josef.steufer with CCLicense Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they...
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Quote for Today: Marian Keyes
© David Monroy with CCLicense Besides, I’d seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and I wanted them for my own. I can’t describe the feeling of immediate familiarity that rushed...
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Burying the Beloved: Love and Loss in Madeline Miller’s Song of Achilles
What would you do if the love of your life was taking on something that you knew would kill them? Homer’s Iliad is a mainstay of western culture, one of the first epics to be written down in that...
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Quote for Today: Julian Barnes
For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through collective memory; but that it refers us forward to something that...
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Quote for Today: Zhuangzi
Life, death, preservation, loss, failure, success, poverty, riches, worthiness, unworthiness, slander, fame, hunger, thirst, cold, heat – these are the alternations of the world, the workings of fate....
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Quote for Today: Atul Gawande
We have room to act, to shape our stories, though as time goes on it is within narrower and narrower confines. A few conclusions become clear when we understand this: that our most cruel failure in...
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Quote for Today: Frank Herbert
What is the most profound difference between us, between you and me? You already know it. It’s these ancestral memories. Mine come at me in the full glare of awareness. Yours work from your blind...
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