"All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again."

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Kate Morton

#Real Quotes #Book Quotes #Able Quotes

“Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you've never had it so good.”
“in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.”
“Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.”

Source : Issa Kobayashi, Nanao Sakaki, John Brandi, Jeff Bryan (1999). “Inch by inch: 45 haiku”, LA Alameda Pr
“But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.”
“If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.”
“As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.”
“If someone asks me where I bought something Iâ€™m wearing, I will usually say I donâ€™t remember.”
“We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not...You can hasten our arrival or you can equally ***** it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world.”

Source : Judische Rundschau, No. 4, 1920.

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