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What's so French about French fries?
Were hot dogs ever made of real dogs?
How do you feel about the state the world is in?
Do you think there's anything a person like you or me can do to make things better?
What gives you hope?
What are you saving your Love for?
READING
As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those
dwelling-places deep within us that we would not have known how to enter, its role in our
lives is salutary. It becomes dangerous on the other hand, when, instead of awakening us to
the personal life of the mind, reading tends to take its place, when the truth no longer
appears to us as an ideal which we can realise only by the intimate progress of our own
thought and the efforts of our heart, but as something material, deposited between the
leaves of books like a honey fully prepared by others and which we need only take the trouble
to reach down from the shelves of libraries and then sample passively in a perfect repose of
mind and body....
To make [reading] into a discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement.
Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not
constitute it.
-- Marcel Proust
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