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"A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open."
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"Look upon the world with wonder."
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"Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story."
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"The moment of existence is miraculous."
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"Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way?"
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"Do you ever wonder about the fairy tales of life?"
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"Do you not wonder about the mysteries of life?"
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"O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping."
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"Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood."
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"Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees-he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder."
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"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
Truth
"It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer."
Courage
"Take your place, then. Look at what happened from every side and consider all the other ways it could have gone. Consider, even, an Africa unconquered altogether. Imagine those first Portuguese adventurers approaching the shore, spying on the jungle's edge through their fitted brass lenses. Imagine that by some miracle of dread or reverence they lowered their spyglasses, turned, set their riggings, sailed on. Imagine all who came after doing the same. What would that Africa be now? All I can think of is the other okapi, the one they used to believe in. A unicorn that could look you in the eye."
Imagination
"You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next."
Death
"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier."
Truth
"Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel."
Writing
"The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away."
Friendship
"Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off."
Society
"That would be Axelroot all over, to turn up with an extra wife or two claiming that's how they do it here. Maybe he's been in Africa so long he's forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it's called Monotony."
Humor
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope."
Life
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