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“When we read, we are capable of taking in only about one key word and then four characters to the left and fifteen characters to the right at any one time.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

“An adult considers constant repetition boring, because it requires reliving the same experience over and over again. But to preschoolers repetition isn't boring, because each time they watch something they are experiencing it in a completely different way.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“We're all on different paths, but death doesn't discriminate. It comes for everyone. It's what you do with it that sets you apart.”
― T.J. Klune

“If she was telling the truth and was human, she'd always have to be scared of something. That was how humanity worked. Survival instinct was based on a healthy dose of fear.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“Not knowing is better than pretending to know.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“Death has a beauty to it. We don't see it because we don't want to. And that makes sense. Why would we want to focus on something that takes us away from everything we know? How do we even begin to understand that there's more than what we see?”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“For many men in the quarter, unmarried and with no future to think of, the weekly drinking-bout was the one thing that made life worth living.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“What else is there to think about mate? Times like these, you get to the basics - what you eat, where you shit, finding a place to sleep. It's what keeps you sane.”
― Janice Y.K. Lee, The Piano Teacher

“I’ve already satisfied that sick journalistic urge that feeds in ripping open wounds of others just before they’re about to heal.”
― Stacy Willingham, A Flicker in the Dark

“It’s the realization of how many hidden bodies could be buried beneath my feet at any point in time, the world above them completely oblivious to their existence.”
― Stacy Willingham, A Flicker in the Dark