"Books worth reading are worth re-reading."

-- Holbrook Jackson

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“Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.”
“In the next 10 years there will be about 100 000 people who will be preparing the way for themselves with the assistance of their guides (all human beings have a dimensional being walking beside them). They will all be assisting themselves as part of the preparation by becoming aware of how animals have been separated from humans and how we are able to bring oneness into the hereness.”
“Love your readers to death!”
“No more winter at all. Finch, you brought me spring.”

Source : Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.214, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon.”
“What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like?”
“I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.”
“[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous part of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world.”

Source : Tom Wolfe (1999). “The electric kool-aid acid test”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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