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A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.
– JM Coetzee

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  2. Perhaps they didn’t know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea? – Ben Marcus
  3. Perhaps they didn’t know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea? – Ben Marcus
  4. If you open your mind more than you open your mouth, you will open your world more than you open your doubt. – Robert J Braathe
  5. I tossed a stone into the Sea To see what it would do for me And the ripples went out And became ocean waves To return to the Sea inside of me – Mark AY Nunez
  6. Tears were frozen to the book theif’s face. – Markus Zusak
  7. I’ve had people tell me to get over it. I politely tell them, ‘How about if I chop off your finger and see if it grows back? – Jim Sheeler
  8. Don’t ever ‘influence’ me against my will again, MacLachlan,. Or I will load your balls into my Cuisinart and press ‘chop. – Diana Duncan
  9. You don’t always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. – Anne Lamott
  10. Maybe life does suck, Pork Chop, but it beats the hell out of the alternative. – Lois Greiman
  11. Basset Hounds never get scared. We’re fearless, resolute and know how to season a good lamb chop. – Elias Zapple
  12. Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
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  14. Open the curtains of your mind! If there is light outside, it will come in; if there is light inside, it will go out! Keep the curtains open! – Mehmet Murat ildan
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  16. Sea sand is sea sand. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  17. There is no place like the beach… where the land meets the sea and the sea meats the sky – Umair Siddiqui
  18. But remember: what belongs to the sea will always return to the sea.–Nereid – Rick Riordan
  19. The sea, the sea-¦Man alone,Passive, unawareIn his elemental sadness. – Scott Hastie
  20. The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea. – Katherine McIntyre
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  22. I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realised that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men. – Alain Bombard
  23. A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times. – JM Coetzee
  24. A small sharp axe clears a forest quicker than a big blunt one. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  25. A small sharp axe can cut down more trees than a big dull one. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  26. Because a woman’s beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it. – JM Coetzee
  27. (…) pick up your axe, start at the rootsdon’t miss the trunk, never forget:to end life truly and finallystart at the roots or end there. – Moonshine Noire
  28. A short axe can still cut down tall trees. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  29. Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That’s what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for? – JM Coetzee
  30. A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe. – Nikolai Gogol
  31. My words are like axe don’t dare to interferes with your finger. – Kartik Mehta
  32. The size of the tree you cut determines the weight with which you have to throw the axe. – Israelmore Ayivor
  33. (I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution. – JM Coetzee
  34. The Professor gripped his axe, having pulled it, with some difficulty, from the boy’s head. – Neil Davies
  35. Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories? – JM Coetzee
  36. There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason. – JM Coetzee
  37. The person who floated the axe with a stick is in charge of my affairs, so marvel not. – Bayode Ojo
  38. Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation. – JM Coetzee
  39. Without desire how is it possible to make a story? – JM Coetzee
  40. In the 1940s dams were synonymous with progress, and the rivers were to be conquered with the fervour of a pioneer wielding an axe. – Tim Palmer

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