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I Know This Much Is True

by Wally Lamb (Goodreads Author)

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“People said that he was very nice, but I confess that his utter grotesqueness made me uneasy; perhaps in the same way that the sight of monkeys eating their own excrement turns some people’s stomachs. They might not mind so much if monkeys did not- so grotesquely- resemble human beings.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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“He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying

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“The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.”
― Sitting Bull

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“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: dramatist-quotes

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