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East of Eden
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You can boast about anything if it’s all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.
“I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald.”
― The Complete Persepolis
― The Complete Persepolis
“If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.”
― 84, Charing Cross Road
― 84, Charing Cross Road
“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”
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“I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.”
― 84, Charing Cross Road
― 84, Charing Cross Road
“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
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