"Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly delightful. You become your best optimistic self. Like romantic love, book love fills you with a certain warmth and completeness. The world holds promise."

-- Steve Leveen

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“The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.”
“Never underestimate the power of helplessness!”
“What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space? Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident.”
“No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.”
“The great purpose in life is to take your destiny out of the hands of others.”
“The joy of late love is like green firewood when set aflame, for the longer the wait in lighting, the greater heat it yields and the longer its force lasts....”
“I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.”
“If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me ...”

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