"When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life."

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Gabrielle Zevin

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“If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.”
“It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?”
“The role of the artist is to not look away.”
“We Greeks want change. We know there are problems in our system. We have great potential but we need to manage our country well. Now that hasn't been done over the last decades. And that is, of course, what we are paying for.”
“I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver.”
“Customers can tell you how to evolve a product, but they can't show you how to make a leap.”
“Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.”
“Religion is like music, one must have an ear for it. Some people have none at all.”

Source : Charlotte Mary Mew (1981). “Collected Poems and Prose”, Carcanet Press

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