October 2011
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“As in all self-respecting families, an emporium had been established where...”
– John Galsworthy, line spoken by James Forsyte in The Man of Property, part of the Forsyte Saga (English novelist and playwright, 1867-1933)
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“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they...”
– Mark Twain
September 2011
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“Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don’t have the top...”
– Jerry Seinfeld
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“It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it...”
– John W. Gardner and Francesca Gardner Reese
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“Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not...”
– Margaret Atwood
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“A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at...”
– G. K. Chesterton
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“Strange children should smile at each other and say, ‘Let’s...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
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“Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear...”
– Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
– Heraclitus, Fragments
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“The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think...”
– Howard Zinn, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
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“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some...”
– Barack Obama
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“History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do...”
– Howard Zinn, Rawstory.com interview (9 September 2005)
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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must...”
– Elie Wiesel
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“‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo....”
– J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect...”
– Tom Robbins
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“It would have been nice to have had unicorns.”
– Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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“Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?”
– Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
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“The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive,...”
– Arundhati Roy, from a speech titled Come September
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“As we live and as we are, Simplicity — with a capital “S” — is...”
– Frank Lloyd Wright, The Natural House
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“For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.”
– H. L. Mencken
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“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple,...”
– Ray Bradbury, The October Country
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“I never knew anybody … who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin, The Birthday of the World and Other Stories, 2002
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“… all the beauty and ugliness and turbulence one found scattered through...”
– Lorrie Moore, Birds of America, “Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People”
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“The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful...”
– W. H. Auden, W. H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955
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“It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of...”
– Charles Darwin
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“If you can approach the world’s complexities, both its glories and its...”
– Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
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“All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.”
– Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
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“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and...”
– James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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“in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other’s...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
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“How obvious it is now —the gift you gave him. All those letters, they were you...”
– Spoken by Roxanne in Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac