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| a50b62a | All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were told before us and that we have come of age loving--amateurs--we proceed, seeking out the blank places in the map that our favorite writers, in their greatness and negligence, have left for us, hoping to pass on to our own readers--should we be lucky enough to find any--.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 7c45460 | That's a big trunk," James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart of some leviathan. "It fits a tuba, three suitcases, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly." "That's just what they used to say in the ads," I said..." | dead-dogs garment-bags suitcases trunk-space tubas | Michael Chabon | |
| af0e07a | Back in the summer of 1941, they had stood to lose so much, it seemed, through the shame and ruination of exposure. Sammy could not have known that one day he would come to regard all the things that their loving each other had seemed to put at so much risk - his career in comic books, his relations with his family, his place in the world - as the walls of a prison, an airless, lightless keep from which there was no hope of escape....He rec.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| a7d60c7 | That evening I rode downtown on an unaccountably empty bus, sitting in the last row. At the front I saw a thin cloud of smoke rising around the driver's head. 'Hey, bus driver,' I said. 'Can I smoke?' 'May I,' said the bus driver. 'I love you,' I said. | Michael Chabon | ||
| c32363e | What would she be saying if she did? That she did want to marry him? For ten years, at least, since she was twelve or thirteen, Rosa had been declaring roundly to anyone who asked that she had no intention of getting married, ever, and that if she ever did, it would be when she was old and tired of life. When this declaration in its various forms had ceased to shock people sufficiently, she had taken to adding that the man she finally marri.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 4b68299 | I hate it that they even count errors,' Ethan said. . . . 'What kind of game is that? No other sport do they do that, Dad. There's no other sport where they put the errors on the freaking scoreboard for everybody to look at. They don't even have errors in other sports. They have fouls. They have penalties. Those are things that players could get on purpose, you know. But in baseball they keep track of how many accidents you have.' * * * E.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 8e4606a | Every Messiah fails, the moment he tries to redeem himself. | Michael Chabon | ||
| e3c7ddc | Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest. | Max Lucado | ||
| bf3af5f | I'm just going through a phase right now. Everybody goes through phases and all, don't they? | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 0bc611d | Living is making decisions and dealing with the consequences. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| b81cb26 | Difficulty" is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are." -- | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 4869f55 | life can seem either very long or very short, according to how you live it. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 1e8bf4f | People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too. But that's the way it is. | the-alchemist | Paulo Coelho | |
| 1c109ab | the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 3e7beff | Where are they written?" "In the world around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life, and you will discover where, every moment of the day, He hides His words and His will. Seek to do as He asks: this alone is the reason you are in the world." "If I discover it, I'll write it on clay tablets." "Do so. But write them, above all, in your heart; there they can neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them wherever you go.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 752d0ba | The closer one gets to realizing his destiny,the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being. | paulo-coelho the-alchemist | Paulo Coelho | |
| f4494bf | La locura es la incapacidad para comunicar tus ideas. Como si estuvieras en un pais extranjero, viendo todo, entendiendo lo que pasa a tu alrededor, pero incapaz de explicarte y ser ayudado porque no entiendes la lengua que hablan alli. | veronika-decide-morir | Paulo Coelho | |
| 7387019 | hl t`lm m l'mr ldhy ymnH lmr'@ lldh@ lkbr~ fy lzwj? - ljns. - khT', `dd lT`m. mshhd@ zwjh y'kl. nh lHZ@ mmjd@ bnZr lmr'@, l'nh tqDy nhrh b'kmlh tfkr fy l`sh | Paulo Coelho | ||
| d0afcac | n knt lm`n@ HSl@, fmn l'fDl tqblh, lnh ln tzwl bmjrd nkrk lh. dh kn lfrH HDr, fmn l'fDl tqblh 'yD Ht~ wn khshyt 'n yzwl ywman m | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a5d2f39 | War crimes, you say? No matter how many policies you put on paper, in reality, there are no rights and wrongs in war. War itself is a crime. War cannot be justified. I believe, the only people, in this world, whose opinions matter, are the ones who go the extra mile to help other people expecting nothing in return. Soldiers who fight fiercely for their country, the doctors in Sri Lanka's public hospitals attending to hundreds of patients .. | ife inspiration paulo-coelho sri-lanka war war-crimes | Thisuri Wanniarachchi | |
| 752b86a | l`dhb yHdth `ndm nrGb fy 'n yHbn lakhr blTryq@ lty ntSwWrh, wlys blTryq@ lty yjb 'n ytjl~ lHb fyh, Hran bl qywd, yrshdn bqwth wyHwl dwn twqfn | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 8ab522e | When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask Gd to give me th courage to mercilessly pluck it out. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 33d5fa2 | kthyrwn ykhshwn ls`d@ l'n hdh@ lklm@ tHml fy Tyth Drwr@ tTwyr jz mn `dthm .. wbltly fqd hwythm | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 9ccca4c | Time heals everything, don't you think?" That depends. Time can often make things worse." -- | Paulo Coelho | ||
| af006c8 | Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| b442ced | As Einstein said, God does not play dice with the universe; everything is interconnected and has a meaning. That meaning may remain hidden nearly all the time, but we always know we are close to our true mission on earth when what we are doing is touched with the energy of enthusiasm. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| c0144d3 | Age only slows down those who never had the courage to walk at their own pace.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 2ab40bc | A warrior of the light never picks fruit before it is ripe. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| f0c72a7 | Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable. | heaven pain | Paulo Coelho | |
| a78f35a | 'nt `l~ khT' fy qwlk 'n akhryn t`fw mn lSdm@ ,hm khb'wh wHsb fy mkn b`yd l yqSdwnh 'bd | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 98bd384 | Nature is telling us: "Change!" | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 345e797 | Only cowards hide behind silence. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| d1fb145 | ystgh khd qTry kh bh mqSd khd my rft , lkhty dr ystgh dny twqf krd w pymbr rw bh jhnyn krd w gft: mqSd m khdst . kyst kh b m sfr knd? kyst kh rnj w `shq twmn bkhwhd ? kyst kh bwr knd dny ystghy st tnh bry gdhshtn ? qrn h gdhsht m z byshmr admyn jz ndky br an qTr swr nshdndz jhn t khd hzr ystgh bwd. dr hr ystgh kh qTr my ystd , ksy km my shd qTr my gdhsht w sbk my shd , zyr sbky qnwn rh khdst . qTry kh bh mqSd khd my rft, bh ystgh bhsht rs.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 246ef47 | When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times. | inspirational secret-of-life | Paulo Coelho | |
| f2b505c | Somewhere you are holding the person I love," the boy said. "So, when I look out over your sands, I am also looking at her. I want to return to her, and I need your help so that I can turn myself into the wind." | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e10c3bb | ql lmlk : llh ynSt lSlwt ldhyn ys'lwn b`d lbGD `nhm , lknh ytjhl hw'l lrGbyn fy lfrr mn lHb. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 58dfa3c | Oscar Wilde said that we always destroy the thing we love the most. And it is true. The simple possibility of achieving that which we desire causes the soul of the common man to be filled with guilt. He looks around, and sees many others who have not succeeded, and so he thinks he does not deserve it. He forgets everything he overcame, all he suffered, everything he had to renounce in order to come this far. I know many people who, when the.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 93d25c1 | Be blessed. And just as you are transforming your own life, may you transform the lives of those around you. When they ask, do not forget to give. When they knock at your door, be sure to open it. When they lose something and come to you, do whatever you can to help them find what they have lost. First, though, ask; knock at the door and find what is missing in your life. A hunter always knows what to expect - eat or be eaten. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 808b114 | A child can always teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires. It was because of that boy that I returned to Akbar. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 0a6bc6e | Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings. Like her, these men, and the many others who sought her company, were all tormented by that same destructive feeling, the sense that no one else on the planet cared for them. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 3a18722 | Time does not pass, it merely changes. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e7e1d09 | I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 76f422e | Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| fa07263 | I've read this same sentence about twenty times since you came in. | J.D. Salinger |