"You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible."

-- Anne Enright

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“They say behind mountains are more mountains.”
“If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Gwen Goodnight”
“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”
“I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.”

Source : Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.14, Faber & Faber
“In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.”

Source : John Edward Williams (1965). “Stoner: A Novel”
“I must admit that when I chose the name, "vitamine," I was well aware that these substances might later prove not to be of an amine nature. However, it was necessary for me to choose a name that would sound well and serve as a catchword, since I had already at that time no doubt about the importance and the future popularity of the new field.”

Source : Casimir Funk (1922). “The Vitamines”
“We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.”
“The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.”

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