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1 " I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself. "
― Mark Helprin , Freddy and Fredericka
2 " Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step. "
3 " Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day. "
4 " A good river is nature's life work in song. "
5 " We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy. "
6 " In America, Fredericka, they don't really have trains for people. The trains here are used mainly to transport pigs, television sets, and fruit. "
7 " I was brought up,' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types. "
8 " I've given myself to you. You may have my body, soul, everything. Time passes, and all I want is the intimacy that slows, defeats. and confounds it. Love, that's what it is. You've always made the mistake that men often make, and carried forward the great fault that mars civilisation, which is that you believe that your philosophy is deeper than love. "
9 " It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms that sometimes march across the golden surface of the sun. "
10 " Just the two of us. We're in it together. The pleasure will be ours alone. For the rest of our lives. "
11 " It is said that marriage is a long war between ancient families trapped in close proximity by lust. "
12 " Potatoes have much more staying power than caviar. "
13 " And I love you.' she said her heart buoyant. She really did love him, although each time she said it and he could not reply, she loved him perhaps a little less. "
14 " If you don't have compassion you won't be compelled to help. "
15 " When finally the sky grew ink-black, the trees were visible only as their swaying branches blotted out the stars that crossed in blazing showers, as sometimes they do. The language of the stars, seldom read and heeded less, told beautifully and in silence of all the victories that had ever been won and all the defeats ever suffered. In uncountable lines of light across the widest sphere, the stars spoke of everything notable even down to a leaf blowing rhythmically in the wind. "
16 " People in my constituency are starving and born with sixteen fingers. Did you ever eat weasel shish-kebob? Freddy doesn’t walk by the side of the motorways to gather dandelions for his salad, but the people who sent me here do. Why are we supporting him? He doesn’t deserve it. The Tories won’t give milk to children who go to school hungry and come home to baked cat. "
17 " Disdain is only as intense as similarity. "
18 " Isn't it better to think nothing than to think something that is completely idiotic? "
19 " What a place to put a city, right on the front line of absolute zero. No wonder a cow burned it down. "
20 " Better a bird in hand than hell knows what in the bush. "