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“There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of wine. There are even people who smoke one or two cigarettes a week. And then there are people for whom one of anything is not even an option.”
― Thinking About Memoir
― Thinking About Memoir
“Shopping is hope.”
― A Three Dog Life
― A Three Dog Life
“Being a student—letting go of your ego—is like sitting for a banquet at the best restaurant you’ll ever visit.”
― Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old
― Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old
“If a female fainted easily, could not abide spiders, feared thunderstorms, ghosts, and highwaymen, ate only tiny portions, collapsed after a brief walk, and wept when she had to add a column of numbers, she was considered the feminine ideal.”
― Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
― Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
“Dogs are never in a bad mood over something you said at breakfast. Dogs never sniff at the husks of old conversations, or conduct autopsies on weekends gone wrong. An unexamined life may not be worth living, but the overexamined life is hell. We talk too much.”
― A Three Dog Life
― A Three Dog Life
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