"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."

-- Kenzaburo Oe

#Reading Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Night Quotes

“Donâ€™t depend on luck to solve problems.”
“IÂ tried to read the Bible, IÂ did, but it always felt like a much less awesome Lord of the Rings.”
“The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is the return of the declination to its original value is slightly ahead of the period of the centre. Hence it necessarily follows that the equinoxes and solstices seem to anticipate their timing, not because the sphere of the fixed stars moves to the east, but rather the equatorial circle moves to the west, being at an angle to the plane of the ecliptic in proportion to the declination of the axis of the terrestrial globe.”
“Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.”

Source : "Exclusive Victoria Justice Interview". www.seventeen.com. March 9, 2011.
“You cannot be politically correct in a war.”
“My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.”
“For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight, for the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and sight; Lord of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.”
“What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”

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