"God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work."
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"All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander."
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"Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world."
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"No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest."
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"Works of genius are the first things in the world."
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"The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there."
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"Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists."
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"We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are."
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"Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large."
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"Do you guys remember that time when we were all definitely going to die and then Ben grabbed the steering wheel and dodged a ginormous freaking cow and spun the car like the teacups at Disney World and we didn't die?"
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"There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer."
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"that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world."
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"As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know."
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"Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource."
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"I understand that there are a lot of things you cannot control in this world."
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"A private company can't compete against the resources of the second largest economy in the world."
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"If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained?"
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"Something I've always known about the screen is that if it's anything in the world, it's literal. It's so literal that there's a whole lot you can't do because you're stuck with the literalness of the screen. The stage is not literal."
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"I've learned to be one of the hardheadedest cats in the world. I've learned that."
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"There are very few profound sayings in the world."
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