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All that you are attached to, all that you love, all that you know, someday will be gone. Knowing this, and that the world is your mind which you create, play in, and suffer from, is known as discrimination. Discriminate between the Real and the Unreal, the known is unreal and will come and go so stay with the Unknown, the Unchanging, the Truth. — H.W.L. Poonja

The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether - very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be overtaken by the passive distractions of radio, but for the moment reading remained most people's principal method for filling idle time. — Bill Bryson

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting. — Saul Kripke

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale. — Barbara Castle

The cat Horus shot out from under the table and headed for the door, his ears flattened and his tail straight out. There he encountered Abdullah, who had been waiting for us on the verandah and who had, I supposed, been alarmed by Emerson's shouts and hurried to discover what disaster had prompted them. The cat got entangled in Abdullah's skirts and a brief interval of staggering (by Abdullah), scratching (by Horus) and swearing (by both parties) ensued before Horus freed himself and departed. — Elizabeth Peters

You know a whole lot about romance for a guy who spent the night standing alone by the trash. — Anthony Breznican

I sat in that room and realized that you can cut off a finger, cut off a hand, even cut off a leg, but if you take a woman's breast, you are cutting more than just a body part. — Charles Martin

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us. — Al Gore

The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it. — Enzo Ferrari

Clothes can have a very refined vibration. An ochre robe can be extremely refined and so can a wonderful satin gown or a silk brocade coast. — Frederick Lenz

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him. — P.D. James

Were the stars out when I left the house last evening? All I could remember was the couple in the Skyline listening to Duran Duran. Stars? Who remembers stars? Come to think of it, had I even looked up at the sky recently? Had the stars been wiped out of the sky three months ago, I wouldn't have known. — Haruki Murakami

When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned. — Melanie Benjamin