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“Never say more than is necessary.”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.”
― Richard Brautigan

“Love Poem
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It's so nice
to wake up in the morning
all alone
and not have to tell somebody
you love them
when you don't love them
any more.”
― Richard Brautigan

“I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.”
― Richard Brautigan

“Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4.

1.Get enough food to eat,
and eat it.

2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,
and sleep there.

3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself,
and listen to it.

4.”
― Richard Brautigan

“I'm in a constant process of thinking about things. ”
― Richard Brautigan

“تو هم به من فکر می‌کنی
آن‌قدر
که من به تو؟”
― ریچارد براتیگان

“Sometimes I see me dead in the rain.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.”
― Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
― Hal Borland

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
― John Boyne