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“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.”
― Basho

“There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.”
― Gary Snyder

“Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.”
― Carrie Fisher

“It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“Things separate from their stories have no meaning.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
― W.S. Merwin