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The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history. ↗

— Viktor Yushchenko

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Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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Write a page a day. It will add up. ↗

— Herman Wouk

#day #page #up #will #write

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

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Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages; it was a path on which, whatever direction we took, we'd never be able to choose our own destiny. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#cruel-lesson #direction #past #path #turning-back-the-pages

A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life. ↗

— Amy Hempel

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No, my advocates, my angels with sadist eyes, this is the beginning of my life, or the end. So I lean affirmation across the cafe table, and surrender my fifty years away with an easy smile. But the surety of my love is not dismayed by any eventuality which prudence or pity can conjure up, and in the end all that we can do is to sit at the table over which our hands cross, listening to tunes from the wurlitzer, with love huge and simple between us, and nothing more to be said. ↗

— Elizabeth Smart

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There are many examples of animals coming to surprising living arrangements...where an animal takes a human being or another animal to be one of it's kind. ↗

— Yann Martel

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Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magisterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my tent. It was a scene of peerless tranquility, tossed out in Nature's devil-may-care way, which says: Just open your eyes, my friend, and I'll astonish you every minute of your life. ↗

— Lawrence Millman

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Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men. And they had some children who were just like all children. And it rained all day. The woman had to skewer the hole in the kitchen sink, when it was blocked up. The man went to the pub every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The other nights he mended his broken bicycle, did the pool coupons, and longed for money and power. The woman read love stories and longed for things to be different. The children fought and yelled and played and had scabs on their knees. In the end they all died. ↗

— Elizabeth Smart

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