Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

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I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.

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I know you feel worn and tired. I know you're tired of failing. Rest, but don't stop. You can do this. You got this. Not because you're strong, but because He's your strength.

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The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.

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Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.

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Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.

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It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us

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The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

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As the psychologist Daniel Gilbert observed, disbelieving is hard work, and System 2 is easily tired. ― Daniel Kahneman

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I'm the smartest at 8 A.M. I wake up at 6, drink three cups of Awake Tazo Tea and read five newspapers. I have to think up something every day, Monday to Friday. — John Waters

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