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Instead of feeling sad watching my father working as a gas station attendant, after a lifetime of being a commanding officer, or of my mother, who had not worked since she was a teenager, now pregnant and slaving away over the hot grills, I
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“Reading is better than life. Without reading, you're stuck with life.”
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“Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.”
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“No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
― The Last Lecture
― The Last Lecture
“To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.”
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“You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.”
― Charlotte’s Web
― Charlotte’s Web
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