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“I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.”
― Montesquieu

“...some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. ...it is not travel and adventure that make a full life. There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need ever be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.”
― Dorothy Emily Stevenson, Listening Valley

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God