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by Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)

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“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, children-s-books, reading

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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
― Robert Orben

tags: humour, politics, truth

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“I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

tags: mary-malone, morality

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