"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title."

-- Virginia Woolf

#Friendship Quotes #Women Quotes #Book Quotes

“Don't search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.”
“To live without you, only that would be torture." "A day alone, only that would be death.”
“I like to drink to suit my location.”
“Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't speak well for the human imagination. None is as novel as a kangaroo or starfish.”

Source : "Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge". Book by William Poundstone, 1988.
“Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But that's not the question. Is it more important that sushi, bacon, or chicken nuggets? That's the question.”
“You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride”
“One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the wonderful story in your head is infinitely better, truer, more moving, more fascinating, more perceptive, than anything you're going to manage to get down on paper.”
“I couldn't skate, I couldn't shoot, and I wasn't very intelligent. But I was spectacular”

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