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Clare Lanphear
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“Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.”
― My Reading Life
― My Reading Life
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“Keep passing the open windows.”
― The Hotel New Hampshire
― The Hotel New Hampshire
“We’re as common as rain.” And she was right: to each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family, even exaggerations make perfect sense; they are always logical exaggerations, nothing more.”
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“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”
― The Hotel New Hampshire
― The Hotel New Hampshire
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