"I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to."

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Helene Hanff

#Reading Quotes #Long Quotes #Attention Quotes

“The national government...will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality.”
“The sand stretched out gray and ghostlike and illuminated, a column of light leading forward. It was like something a dead person would see, a tunnel leading toward heaven.”
“As long as you remember the person who loved you, and whom you still love, then you're making love endure.”
“All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?”
“The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.”

Source : Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”
“There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.”
“A number of studies of homeless youth in big cities put forth a startling statistic: Depending on the study, somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of homeless youths identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.”
“I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.”

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