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“What is art but another way of exerting power? It was inevitable.”
“Don't you see? This was to be ours together, the successes and the failures...All of this? he said, and couldn't help a smile. Yes, all of this. Then she too smiled.”
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“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham - all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned inside out and put down for what they”
― Black Beauty
― Black Beauty
“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.”
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“At the office I worked in before that, my boss required all employees to take a personality test that divided us neatly into one of four quadrants: Doers, Creators, Deciders, or Thinkers, categories that would then define our roles in the department. Most of the others were Doers; there were a couple of Deciders, too. I was the only Thinker. My first thought was, I think I need to get out of here.”
― My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
― My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
“The gray tomcat with the white priest’s collar enjoyed sharpening his claws on Franz Kafka’s Investigations of a Dog, a fable that analyzes the human world from a dog’s perspective. On the other hand, orange-white, long-eared Lindgren liked to lie near the books about Pippi Longstocking; she was a fine-looking cat who peered out from the back of the bookshelves and scrutinized each visitor. Lindgren and Kafka would sometimes do Perdu a favor by dropping off one of the upper shelves without warning onto a third-category customer, one of the greasy-fingered”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
― The Little Paris Bookshop
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