What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
The switch had two settings. You could either turn it to AUTO, in which case the awning lowered itself whenever the sun came out, or you could set it to MANUEL [sic], in which case, we assumed, a small, incompetent Spanish waiter came and did it for you.
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
We are the people our parents warned us about.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.
There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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