"It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable."

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Lev Grossman

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“They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed. I spend my life in examining things: I write down in the evening whatever I have remarked, what I have seen, and what I have heard in the day: every thing engages my attention, and every thing excites my wonder: I am like an infant, whose organs, as yet tender, are strongly affected by the slightest objects.”
“Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?”
“How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf.”
“The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.”
“When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books.”

Source : James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture: Physical, Intellectual, Moral, and Spiritual : a Course of Lectures”
“We're in the top six, we've got five points and I've told the lads we need another 80 to win the League.”
“The point in lifeis to find equilibrium in what is inherently unstable.”
“As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!”

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