The Week (US)

Wit & Wisdom

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“What’s surreal to you

is just somebody’s Wednesday somewhere.”

Novelist Karen Russell, quoted in Jezebel.com

“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.”

Galileo Galilei, quoted in RealSimple.com

“There is something infinitely healing in the

repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”

Scientist and author Rachel Carson, quoted in

Psychology­Today.com

“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.”

Bob Hope, quoted in The New Zealand Herald

“Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavemen­t is a

certainty of the worst.”

Albert Camus, quoted in

TravelAndL­eisure.com

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”

George Eliot, quoted in INews.co.uk

“I hate quotations. Tell me

what you know.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted

in the Associated Press

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