"I wonder, what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must be happening, because as soon as I open it, there's a whole story with people I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures, deeds and battles. And sometimes there are storms at sea, or it takes you to strange cities and countries. All those things are somehow shut in a book. Of course you have to read it to find out. But it's already there, that's the funny thing. I just wish I knew how it could be."

-- Michael Ende

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“To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.”

Source : Hamilton Wright Mabie (2006). “The Life of the Spirit”, p.66, Cosimo, Inc.
“I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont. Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything. She shook her head. How many times I've said them very words. I wont again.”
“To listen to some people in Politics, you'd think-nice-was a four-letter word.”
“To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.”
“I think the older you get, the more you know about life, and the more you learn about yourself and you become comfortable in your own skin. So the older I'm getting, the more fun I'm having.”

Source : "Winona Ryder Wants to Be in a Philip Roth Adaptation". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. April 23, 2013.
“I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.”
“The correctness of much testimonially based belief is no more than minimally creditable to the believer.”
“If you are not living in joy, you are out of integrity with your soul.”

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