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Karen’s favorite books

A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford Which Lie Did I Tell? by William Goldman Slow Motion by Dani Shapiro The Color of Water by James McBride The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger Family Baggage by Monica McInerney On Writing by Stephen King The New Dictionary Of Cultural Literacy by E.D. Hirsch Jr. There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem by Wayne W. Dyer
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Karen’s Quotes

George Eliot
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot
tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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Mark Twain
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain
tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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Allen Saunders
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders
tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
tags: inspirational
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Alfred Tennyson
“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
tags: paraphrase-of-congreve
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Biography, Classics, Contemporary, Ebooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Non-fiction, Romance, Self help, and Spirituality


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