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“I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up.
If you're over 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.”
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If you're over 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.”
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“When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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