"I never worked in an office in my life."

-- Jack Vance

“Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.”

Source : "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
“You have with you the book you were reading in the cafe, which you are eager to continue, so that you can then hand it on to her, to communicate again with her through the channel dug by others' words, which, as they are uttered by an alien voice, by the voice of that silent nobody made of ink and typographical spacing, can become yours and hers, a language, a code between the two of you, a means to exchange signals and recognize each other.”
“A party without cake is really just a meeting.”
“...That is one of the main causes of this arrogance: the idea of power. Then you lose your true power which is to be part of all, and the only way you can be part of all is to understand it. And when you don't understand, you have to go humbly to it. You don't go to school and say, 'I know what you're going to teach me'.”
“If you want good things to happen in your life you first have to believe good things are possible for yourself. Quit allowing negative and cynical thinking to get in the way of the good life you deserve.”
“Dead is the cradle of everything.”

Source : "Thinkings" by Antoni Lange,
“A child is fed with milk and praise.”

Source : Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1908). “Tales for children. Poetry for children. Poems. Dramatic works”

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