What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.

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Nora Ephron

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

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W.G. Sebald

In secret we met
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.

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George Gordon Byron

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.

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Studs Terkel

No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

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L. Frank Baum

It’s like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.

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Eoin Colfer

You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.

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David Wroblewski