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The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)

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Bellies

by Nicola Dinan

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“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

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“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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“Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
― Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

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“Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

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“It is strange how a first love, by the lesions it leaves on our heart, may open the way for later loves, but yet fail to offer us, in the identical character of our symptoms and sufferings, the means of curing them.”
― Marcel Proust, The Prisoner: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5

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