"Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal."

-- Laura Miller

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“When you're battling for a job, you know that every day you've got to perform.”
“I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out of his overwhelming victory in New York, 1927, and his underestimation of mine.”
“What have the nibblers ever done for you?" The breeze ruffled her hair, pushing it back from her face, giving him a clear shot of her eyes. They were asking for an answer. Needing to know if she could count on him. "They saved your life," he said. And for just a moment, Luxa's face softened and she smiled.”
“Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.”
“The fool wanders, a wise man travels.”
“One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography.”
“The common denominator of success is in forming the habit of doing the things that failures don't like to do.”
“In arms and science tis the same Our rival's hurts create our fame.”

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