"To a real child anything will serve as a toy."

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Source : John Cowper Powys (2013). “Autobiography”, p.29, Faber & Faber

John Cowper Powys

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“Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.”

Source : Charles Templeton (1955). “Life Looks Up”, New York : Harper
“Interacting with fans has become one of my favorite things.”

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“Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse.”
“Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.”
“A marine protozoan is an aqueous salty system in an aqueous salty medium, but a man is an aqueous salty system in a medium in which there is but little water and most of that poor in salts.”
“If I have one, I'll have thirteen. No, there ain't no in-betwee. Cuz the more I drink, the more I drink, the more I drink.”
“Wolves? I should have known. Of course you have wolves. Doesnâ€™t everybody?â€ She snapped her fingers. â€œThe gun, Lucian. Hand it over. Iâ€™ve decided I have to shoot you after all. Itâ€™s the only way to preserve my sanity.”
“In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small.”

Source : Maureen Corrigan (2007). “Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books”, p.13, Vintage

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