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“If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.”
― The Blue Castle
― The Blue Castle
“I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it was not me.”
― Wives and Daughters
― Wives and Daughters
“Bad news has good legs.”
― How Green Was My Valley
― How Green Was My Valley
“It is very strange to think back like this, although come to think of it, there is no fence or hedge round Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.”
― How Green Was My Valley
― How Green Was My Valley
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