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I have never, I think, wanted to 'belong' to a group whose interests were not mine, nor have I resented exclusion. Why should thet accept me? All I have ever asked is that others should go their way and let me go mine. ↗

— W.H. Auden

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I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky. ↗

— Julie Gregory

#interesting #relatable #thought-provoking #thought-provoking

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing? ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

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News is something worth knowing that you didn't know already. (by an "earnest young woman" in his journalism class) ↗

— David Brinkley

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It was like trying to think about what he’d be thinking if he never existed. He wouldn’t be thinking about what he was thinking. He just wouldn’t exist. It wouldn’t hurt. ↗

— Nicole Grotepas

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But ask us to prove even to ourselves we are right in our belief, and we are in a quandary. ↗

— J.W. Sire

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With wisdom comes responsibility. Somewhere along the way, I misplaced both. ↗

— I.E. Castellano

#wisdom #thought-provoking

In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by how few people -- people who supposedly want to write -- read books, and if they read them, how little they examine them. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#reading #writing #writing-craft

साधेपणा किती उदात्त असू शकतो , हे आधुनिकतेच्या लाटेत नष्ट न होवो. ही खेडी अशी निष्पाप साधी उदार मनाची राहतील? राहतील. राहतील. हिंदू लोक काहीही फेकून देत नाहीत. सिंधुकाळापासून सगळी अडगळ आम्ही तळघरात गच्च जपून ठेवली आहे. सगळं तिथे अंधारात कुठेतरी ठेवलेलं असतं. ते न दिसू दे. न हरवू दे. स्मृतीतून सुद्धा जाऊ दे. काही बिघडत नाही. केव्हातरी सापडेलच. ↗

— Bhalchandra Nemade

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ह्या अर्थशून्य विश्वव्यापारात जाणीवा म्हणजे आपल्या नगण्य जगण्याला आधार देण्याच्या फारच कृत्रिम सबबी आहेत ! ↗

— Bhalchandra Nemade

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