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“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert