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You've Been Pooping All Wrong: How to Make Your Bowel Movements a Joy

by Trisha Pasricha (Goodreads Author)

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“It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.”
― Jennifer Haigh, The Condition

tags: affection, duration, friendship, life, loyalty

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“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

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“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

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“Is reading a sport?”
― Amanda Eyre Ward, How to Be Lost

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“Books are reason to get up in the morning.”
― Nina Sankovitch

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