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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 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
“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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“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“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
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