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"I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind."
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"This is newness: every little tawdryObstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar,Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only youDon't know what to make of the sudden slippiness,The blind, white, awful, inaccessible slant.There's no getting up it by the words you know.No getting up by elephant or wheel or shoe.We have only come to look. You are too newTo want the world in a glass hat."
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"Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map."
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"That person in the mirror is just the outside, your earth suit; the real you resides on the inside."
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"Beneath beautiful appearances I search out ugly depths, and beneath ignoble surfaces I probe for the hidden mines of devotion and virtue. It's a relatively benign mania, which enables you to see something new in a place where you would not have expected to find it."
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"This scripture is saying that you will always have bread and water on your table."
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"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities."
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"For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure."
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"You have to discover the essence of your creation."
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"I'm not sure anyone knows what they're looking for until they find it."
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"The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school."
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"Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand, pen mighter than the sword and so forth."
Writing
"If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong."
Creation
"I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats."
Reality
"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."
Books
"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."
Reading
"Never underestimate the capacity for romance, no matter what the circumstances."
Romance
"I am boring, but I'm ok with it. I'm the anchor, the shoulder...I'm an average man...with a truly extraordinary wife."
Contentment
"Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time."
Literature
"I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action."
Curiosity
"Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading."
Time
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