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Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

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Snow Falling on Cedars

by David Guterson (Goodreads Author)

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Becky’s Quotes

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

tags: salinger, stories

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“Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings”
― David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

tags: discretion, tact

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“Give me an honest con man any day.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

tags: paradox

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“This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

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“If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: fuck-you, holden, humor, signs

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