"As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows."

-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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“The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels. The analogy he is looking for is almost there. We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that. In the end, we are collected works.”

Source : "Shadowlands". Biography, Drama, Romance, 1994.
“I do not have an act. I just do Eartha Kitt... I want to be whoever Eartha Kitt is until the gods take me wherever they take me.”
“When done right, music should breathe, be alive. It's not about getting it perfect, it's about capturing lightning in a bottle.”
“Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.”
“Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men.”
“I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life's very full today. Not enough days in the week.”
“It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.”

Source : William Cobbett (1817). “Cobbett's Weekly Political Register”
“Good or bad I propose to be something great!”

Source : "Rival Caesars". Book by Arthur Desmond, 1903.

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