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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. Agatha Christie

People Habits Never Had Knew Curious Them Themselves Things

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. Agnes Repplier

Cats Impossible Pet Lover Enough Hunger Give More Make Gentle Friends Discriminating Banish Just Regard Us Who Alert

It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant. Alain de Botton

Work You Respect Humanity Hate People Mechanic Everybody See Silly Beach Looks Makes Very Accountant Whether Holiday Hard Elicit

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure. Alan Moore

Mind Black Power Sense Disservice State Prestige Magic Colorful Sure Because Am Gothic Up Very Often Certain Played Portrayed

Have you ever had that moment when you looked back on something and said, 'Well, gosh, that seems obvious now... why didn't I see it then?' I like to call this the Face Palm Epiphany. Oh, hindsight, you magical, humbling thing. Alethea Kontis

You Face Back See Magical Seems Something Had Like Looked Obvious Well Call Gosh Hindsight Said Oh Epiphany Then Moment Now Why Ever Thing Palm Humbling

The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on. Alex Steffen

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple. Alice Munro

Simple Nothing Complexity Easy Seems Within Endless Just Mean Things

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops. Amos Oz

Conflict People Minds Begins Hearts Ends

Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims. Amos Oz

All of my novels are democracies. Amos Oz

Democracy Novels

I recommend the art of slow reading. Amos Oz

Art Slow Reading Recommend

To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever. Amy Bloom

Happiness World Will Understanding Fall Our Pleasure Sun Faces Adult Knowing Passes Mockery Forever Any Dies Hold Cannot Us Petals Keep Fashionable Away Amount Last Beloved Save

For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering. Andre Aciman

Journey Grateful Suffering Religious Remembrance Years After

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. Andre Maurois

Life Work Art Great Man Woman Memory Every Great Artist Recollection Record Makes His Artist Unfaithful Her Every Man

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. Andre Maurois

Love Others Astonished Dating Literature Chosen

You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly. Andrew Solomon

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. Anna Sewell

Business Oppression Cruelty Everybody Say See Interfere Now

After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews. Anne Frank

War Good Trouble First Few Jews Good Times Between Arrival Were Germans Times May After Which Far Then Capitulation Started

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her. Anne Frank

You Hide Win Will Half Down Side Tried Superficial More Only Steal Beat Push Lighter Anne Known Always How Often Which Therefore Away Deeper March Her Imagine

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Future Fighting Wave Coming

All around us right now, tucked into the valleys and along the coasts, bookshops glow in the winter light. Think of them like singular, magical, and multi-dimensional recipe boxes. They wait for us to pluck out a card, to stand over the stove, to start cooking. Anthony Doerr

Winter Cooking Light Wait Stove Think Recipe Valleys Out Pluck All-Around Magical Over Along Like Around Boxes Glow Singular Tucked Them Us Stand Multi-Dimensional Now Card Right Start

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