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"An aching heart is but a steppingstone" --Helen Steiner Rice

"In my favorite games, a Fallout 2 or a Project Nomad, for example, I never really cared about 'winning,' or anything skill-based, I just wanted to look around and explore and experience the fictional world." --Jacob Bakkila, the inventor of Horse_eBooks

"Years later he [Kawabata] revealed that he had not only read the Japanese translation of Ulysses but also had bought a copy of the English text and compared the two." --5 Modern Japanese Novelists

"In the house of charred furniture I paused, for hours all historical agitation was suspended, calmed by the murals in the mystery villa." --Durs Grünbein via woods_lot

"Much as dust self-appoints itself into clumps in one corner rather than another, so the idea that the reality is realer over the horizon reels us in." --Tibor Fischer

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"I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves." -Harriet Tubman

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