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Top Quotes from Top Books of All Time

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“You too can be carved anew by the details of your devotion.”

Long Life: Essays and Other Writings

Mary Oliver

“There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.”

The Medium is the Massage

Marshall McLuhan

“John Ronald Reuel Tolkien wrote his first story aged seven. It was about a “green great dragon.” He showed it to his mother who told him that you absolutely couldn’t have a green great dragon, and that it had to be a great green one instead. Tolkien was so disheartened that he never wrote another story for years. The reason for Tolkien’s mistake, since you ask, is that adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you’ll sound like a maniac. It’s an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it out. And as size comes before colour, green great dragons can’t exist.”

The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase

Mark Forsyth

“It is always the gentle ones I fear for the most, those willing to bare their hearts, who grieve for others and feel happy for others' happiness.”

Skyhunter

Marie Lu

“I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I’d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be.”

Anybody Out There?

Marian Keyes

“Your child is least interested in what the report card says. All that matters to him / her is what you say on seeing the report card.”

Happiness Unlimited: How to be happy always

Manoj Arora

“Nature is mother that gives happiness to humanity, It sublimes the fire in us by going on in our life, That is the law of Nature, It is a cycle of Creation, Restoration and destruction, A human can’t do anything but to accept it, Those accepts the law becomes one with nature, And for those who doesn’t, Nature also doesn’t accept humans and everyone knows the consequences, But foolish people keep on doing bloody experiment!”

Love Forever

Mahiraj Jadeja

“...you made a human being. And humans are, by nature, monstrous.”

This Monstrous Thing

Mackenzi Lee

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