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“When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.”
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“There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.”
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“Hanukkah is...the festival of lights, instead of one day of presents, we get eight crazy nights”
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“That money was for working eight to twelve hour days ... it was not a welfare check.”
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“As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.”
Source : Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage
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“Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped in combat, latched to each other during the battle of the rut. The harder they had pulled to escape from each other, the more intractably stuck they were, until they had fallen exhausted, to their knees, in an embrace of hatred that had killed them both.”
Source : Alexandra Fuller (2002). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood”, p.191, Random House
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“He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.”
Source : Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.381
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“For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.”
Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013. 
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“I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.”
Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”
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“How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.”
Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”
