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“Thank you, so much,” Julia said, and hugged her, although her grandmother was most certainly not a hugger. It was like hugging an anxious postcard rack.
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“I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being; let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”
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“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”
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“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
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“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“The only difference between everybody and nobody is all the shoes”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
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