"The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over."

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Daniel Handler

#Reading Quotes #Book Quotes #Eye Quotes

“There are a lot of other terrorist targets we ought to be focusing on. Well, there is Syria, for example, which is pumping through - because of Iran, is pumping weapons on into Hezbollah and so forth - which is then producing a lot of agony in Palestine and in Israel. We ought to be doing a bit to try to stop that.”
“If you look at a testimony of love from 2,000 years ago it can still exactly speak to you, whereas medical advice from only 100 years ago is ridiculous.”
“In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.”
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

Source : "Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 46 (1820)
“We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad; what could I do.”
“All I need to know I learned from my cat.”

Source : Suzy Becker (2014). “Kate the Great, Except When She's Not”, Crown Books for Young Readers
“I don't know if I have a problem expressing joy, but the difficulty is in making an album, a piece of music that really does reflect life rather than the one dimension. I have a problem in trying to make a complete trip record.”

Source : Source: www.excellentonline.com
“It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.”

Source : "Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger". Book by Janet Lowe, 2000.

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