"Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another."

-- Elizabeth Strout

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“Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
“When I'm in this state, everything is pure, vividly clear. I'm in a cocoon of concentration.”
“Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.”

Source : Edgar Degas, Jean Sutherland Boggs (1988). “Degas [exposition]”, p.535, Metropolitan Museum of Art
“What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.”

Source : William Kent Krueger (2012). “The William Kent Krueger Collection #1: Iron Lake, Boundary Waters, and Purgatory Ridge”, p.277, Simon and Schuster
“I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer's is not the person they knew. I wonder to myself - Who are they then?”
“Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?”
“Whether you get hurt by weapons or feelings, it hurts when you get shot in the heart.”
“The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free to castigate Christians and their leaders in any way he likes.”

Source : Frank Schaeffer (1982). “A time for anger: the myth of neutrality”, Good News Publishers

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