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"Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth."
— Vladimir Nabokov

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"Dear Jesus, do something."
— Vladimir Nabokov (Pale Fire)

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"Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader."
— Vladimir Nabokov (Lectures on Literature)

tags: reread
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"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
— Frank Lloyd Wright

tags: dangerous, frank, lloyd, typewriters, wright
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"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."
— Frank Lloyd Wright

tags: angeles, los
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"All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal."
— Steven Millhauser

tags: life, writing
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""my kingdom for a kiss upon your shoulder"
lover you should have come over-

"
— Jeff Buckley

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"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
137 people liked it

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: faith, god, prayer
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"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: truth
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"Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends."
— Tom Waits

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"The big print giveth and the small print taketh away. "
— Tom Waits

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""I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately." "
— Tom Waits

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