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Keith Waterhouse
“Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?”
Keith Waterhouse

“The greatest hindrance to growth in faith is comfortable living.”
John Carey
tags: faith

“Book-burners try to destroy ideas that differ from their own. Reading does the opposite. It encourages doubt... reading releases you from the limits of yourself.”
John Carey

James Rebanks
“Later I would understand that modern industrial communities are obsessed with the importance of ‘going somewhere’ and ‘doing something with your life’. The implication is an idea I have come to hate, that staying local and doing physical work doesn’t count for much.”
James Rebanks, The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape

Emil M. Cioran
“Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.”
Emil Cioran, All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms

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