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“He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.”
― The Idler; Poems
― The Idler; Poems
“I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary,' she said, sticking her chin in the air.”
― Good Night, Mr. Tom
― Good Night, Mr. Tom
“Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?”
― A Streetcar Named Desire
― A Streetcar Named Desire
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
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“The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
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