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“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

“Pouring out liquor is like burning books.”
― William Faulkner

“Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.”
― Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

“Oh, must we dream our dreams
and have them, too?”
― Elizabeth Bishop, Questions of Travel

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia