John Cheever  - Quotes

 Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We have larger apples and better cotton and faster and more beautiful machines. This makes us the greatest country in the world. Unemployment is a myth. Dissatisfaction is a fable. In preparatory school America is beautiful. It is the gem of the ocean and it is too bad. It is bad because people believe it all. Because they become indifferent. Because they marry and reproduce and vote and they know nothing. 

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Rebecca Solnit  - Quotes

 Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable. 

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Geoffrey M. Gluckman  - Quotes

 Feel your emotions,

Live true your passions,

Keep still your mind.
 

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John Adams  - Quotes

 But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed? 

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Margaret Atwood  - Quotes

 I could end this with a moral,

as if this were a fable about animals,

though no fables are really about animals.
 

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Kathleen Norris  - Quotes

 I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy? 

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Wilkie Collins  - Quotes

 The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared. Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise. The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls. 

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