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I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

Tomorrow I'll suggest the liar lies against himself So our condition makes escape impossible? -- we breathe and it's moving air that causes stars to twinkle

The Owner of My Face: New & Selected Poems

How small life is here and how big nothingness. The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow. The two trees bow their heads to each other. Clouds cross the world’s silence in a circle dance

Oppressive Light: Selected Poems by Robert Walser

To have a solid foundation of skepticism, -that is to say, the faculty of changing at any moment, of turning back, of facing successively the metamorphoses of life.

Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques

One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.

Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings

This dream the world is having about itself includes a trace on the plains of the Oregon trail, a groove in the grass my father showed us all one day while meadowlarks were trying to tell something better about to happen.

The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems

At times, love is silent because of too much hurt or too much care. At all times, love is the strongest voice you can always rely on.

Yours, poetically: Special Deluxe Edition of Selected Poems and Quotes

To withstand the nothing, it really takes everything. But it can also take just one thing: a heartbeat in truth beside you; when the mask has been removed. (Soar)

Yours, poetically: Special Deluxe Edition of Selected Poems and Quotes

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudici...

Brian Eno

Xingu!" she scoffed. "Why, it was the fact of our knowing so much more about it than she did—unprepared though we were—that made Osric Dane so furious. I should have thought that was plain enough to everybody!

Ethan Frome & Selected Stories

One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

A Book Of Words: Selections From Speeches And Addresses Delivered Between 1906 And 1927

The rhythm of solitude, once so intimidating, began to feel comfortable. Aloneness, I was learning, does not have to equal loneliness.

Bad Dogs Have More Fun: Selected Writings on Family, Animals, and Life from The Philadelphia Inquirer

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Jacques Vaché

I'll know coffee works without cream and sugar when I see people buying unsweetened bakers chocolate for Valentine's Day.

The Art and Craft of Coffee: An Enthusiast's Guide to Selecting, Roasting, and Brewing Exquisite Coffee

I'm not a purist. Coffee drinking minus cream and sugar is an acquired taste. I'm still not sure it isn't like telling chefs to dispense with spices in cooking.

The Art and Craft of Coffee: An Enthusiast's Guide to Selecting, Roasting, and Brewing Exquisite Coffee

Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to f...

Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Vol 15, Part 2, 26 October, 1950- 28 February 1951

Is it by chance that the 18th century of France, the century of the "philosophy of enlightenment," did not produce any poets except the Marquis de Sade, who -- despite his participation in the events of this epoch -- expressed the first violent prote...

A Menagerie in Revolt: Selected Writings

And then I feel the sun itself as it blazes over the hills, like a million flowers on fire -- clearly I'm not needed, yet I feel myself turning into something of inexplicable value. -from The Buddha's Last Instruction

New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, ...

Nature and Selected Essays

In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside one of the pillars in the prison to which he had bee...

Kleist: Selected Writings