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“Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of anybody else. Everything is so insipid, so uninteresting, that does not relate to the beloved object!” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you...” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention with a quiet heart, with a waiting, opened soul, without passion, without a wish, without judgement, without an opinion.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake.” Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
“The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“The necessary knowledge is that of what to observe.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue
“He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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