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Amanda’s favorite books

Jennifer Government by Max Barry Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree by Laura Hillman Everyman by Philip Roth A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Reader by Bernhard Schlink Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner by David Bach
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Amanda’s Quotes

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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Friedrich Nietzsche
“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: belief, delusions, faith, insanity
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Maya Angelou
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
tags: happiness
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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Adult Fiction, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Cooking, Crime, Fiction, Food, Gay and Lesbian, Graphic novels, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Self help, Suspense, and Thriller


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