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If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#first-sentence

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#first-sentence

On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#food #dating

[People] ask themselves, what is suitable for my position? What is usually done by persons of my station and percuniary circumstances? Or (worse still) what is usually done by persons of a station and circumstances superior to mine? I do not mean that they choose what is customary in preference to what suits their own inclinations. It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things that are commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow: their human capacities are withered and starved: they become incapable of any strong wishes or native pleasures, and are generally without either opinions or feelings of home growth, or properly their own. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#philosophy #run-on-sentence-award #equality

If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#past #present-moment #life

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#children #enjoy #future #neither #nor

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that. ↗

— Columba Bush

#childhood #i #resents #sad #say

Spesso la gente non ha le emozioni chiare, altro che le idee. ↗

— Diego De Silva

#feelings #idee #love #sentimenti #love

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#front #lie #other #present #some

The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#day #inspirational #life #live #motivational