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#1
“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
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T.S. Eliot,
Four Quartets
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voice
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words
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#2
“We live for books.”
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Umberto Eco
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#3
“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”
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Gloria Naylor,
Linden Hills
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love
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#4
“Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
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Joe Klein,
Primary Colors
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#5
“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
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Marvin Bell
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#6
“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
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Norman Rush
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#7
“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
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James Jones,
From Here to Eternity
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#8
“Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.”
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Madeleine de Scudéry
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#9
“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
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John Steinbeck,
The Winter of Our Discontent
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#10
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
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Helen Keller
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#11
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
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Charles M. Schulz
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#12
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,
Frankenstein
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#13
“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.”
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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
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#14
“Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
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Chico Xavier
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#15
“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
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Lewis Carroll,
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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#16
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
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Jean de La Fontaine
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#17
“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
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S.E. Hinton
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#18
“Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on”
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Ibn-e-Safi
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#19
“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
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George R. R. Martin
tags:
books
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#20
“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
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Italo Calvino
tags:
melancholy
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#21
“Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
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Tom Perrotta,
Election
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#22
“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
―
V. S. Naipaul,
In a Free State
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#23
“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
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A.A. Milne,
Winnie-the-Pooh
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#24
“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
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Jeanette Winterson
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#25
“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.”
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Sherwood Anderson
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#26
“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
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Shel Silverstein,
Every Thing on It
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#27
“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
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Douglas Adams,
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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philosophy
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#28
“Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
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Nawal El Saadawi,
Woman at Point Zero
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#29
“And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
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Susanna Clarke,
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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#30
“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
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Zig Ziglar
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