"Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love."

-- Jan Karon

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“While science continually uncovers new mysteries, it has removed much of what was once regarded as deeply mysterious. Although we certainly do not know the exact nature of every component of the universe, the basic principles of physics seem to apply out to the farthest horizon visible to us today.”

Source : Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books
“I used to tell your mother she looked like Sophia Lauren." He looks at me, frowning, and then it registers. "Oh God, some guy's using that line on you, isn't he?" "Not just 'some guy'." I tell him. "The guy.”
“Do what is right because it is right.”
“Long hair, short skirts, the girls like this image and try to make money with it. What they wear, how they behave, it's all part of the business. Television and advertising have changed a great many things. In the old days, we used to make our money on the course. Now your market value is decided elsewhere.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.”
“There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.”
“If you asked me to I'd let you in my life forever. from If You Asked Me To”
“A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.”

Source : Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.41, Prabhat Prakashan

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