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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all. – Annie Dillard

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Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. – Annie Dillard

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Imagination
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There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. – Annie Dillard

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Age
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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. – Annie Dillard

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Light
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No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech. – Kin Hubbard

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The lonely become either thoughtful or empty. – Mason Cooley

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As Ive gotten older Ive occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize thats also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means. – Chris Ware

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I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. Its hard to be alone. – Leonardo DiCaprio

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Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling. – Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena. – Nguyen Cao Ky

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If you use your mind to study reality, you wont understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, youll understand both. – Bodhidharma

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Good words cool more than cold water. – John Ray

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