Quote by Angela Carter
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. – Angela Carter

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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. – Angela Carter

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Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience. – Bob Packwood

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Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all. – Joshua Foer

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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. – Will Rogers

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We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible. – Marco Rubio

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In time of war the laws are silent. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists. – James Newman

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All are free to believe or not believe all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief. – Jeff Miller

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There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. – Charles D. Gill