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“I think you spend your life expecting to be disappointed, so when someone hurts you just a tiny bit, you can say: there I was right all along...You like being right.”
― Liza Conrad, Rock My World: A Novel of Thongs, Spandex, and Love in G Minor

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#2

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

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#3

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

tags: books, time

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#4

“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
― Betty Friedan

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#5

“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Unexpected Blessings

tags: future, past

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#6

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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#7

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

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#8

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

tags: humor-wicked-reading

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#9

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

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#10

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

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#11

“Love is a rebellious bird,
that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain,
if it suits him not to come.”
― Ludovic Halévy

tags: love, opera

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#12

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

tags: life

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#13

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: happiness

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#14

“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

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#15

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: women

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#16

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

tags: life, peace

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#17

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

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#18

“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

tags: aging, death-and-dying

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#19

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

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#20

“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”
― Horton Foote

tags: inspirational, life

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#21

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

tags: books

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#22

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
― George Plimpton

tags: living

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#23

“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
― Ved Mehta, All for Love

tags: conversation

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#24

“You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.”
― Billy Collins

tags: poetry

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#25

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
― Louis Adamic

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#26

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

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#27

“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

tags: meaning-of-life

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#28

“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

tags: friendship

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#29

“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friend, friendship, writers

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#30

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

tags: humor, sadness

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