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Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. E. M. Forster

Life Practice Chronicle Easy Bewildering

Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time. E. W. Howe

Time Worry Only Farmers Growing Season

For me, every hour is grace. Elie Wiesel

Me Grace Every Hour

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army. Elie Wiesel

Army First Liberation Moses Perhaps Greatest Commander Chief Legislator

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever. Elizabeth Gilbert

I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially interactive loner you ever met. The thing is, I am fascinated by people's stories and I'm very talkative and can't ever say no to anything or anyone, so I tend to over-socialize, to give away too much of my time to the many people I adore. Elizabeth Gilbert

Time You People Too Much Met Too Say Would Loner Give More My Time Adore Tend Most Talkative Am Very Than Gregarious Anyone Interactive Stories Anything Far Much Fascinated Many Away Ever Thing Socially Imagine

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions. Ellen Glasgow

Dimensions Only Rut Only Difference Between Difference Grave

I try to leave out the parts readers skip. Elmore Leonard

Try Out Readers Parts Leave Skip

The fear of life, the fear of burdens and of duties, of annoyances and of catastrophes! The fear of life, which makes us, through dread of its sufferings, refuse its joys. Ah! I tell you, this cowardliness enrages me; I cannot forgive it. We must live - live a complete life - live all our life. Emile Zola

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. Ernest Hemingway

Best Down Aim Way Paper See Simplest Put Feel

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. Ernest Hemingway

Funny Man Book Punishment Write Take Got Lot Really

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. Franz Kafka

Signs First Wish Understanding Beginning Die

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. Franz Kafka

First Breath Complacency Draw Outburst Vanity Fresh Always After

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. Franz Kafka

Happiness Believe Strive Possibility Indestructible Perfect Towards Within Theory Element

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty. George MacDonald

Difficulty No Choice Well Make Where Choice

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. George MacDonald

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. George Meredith

Woman Power Beauty Witty Treasure

Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others. Gore Vidal

Life Welfare Christ Action Others Consideration Both Marx Agree Right

Never have children, only grandchildren. Gore Vidal

Only Never Children Grandchildren

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