In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ~Ferdinand Mount
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Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. ~Lyle Lovett
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get. ~Junot Diaz
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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