“It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.”
― Angela's Ashes
― Angela's Ashes
“People are always ruining things for you.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Angela's Ashes
― Angela's Ashes
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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