“The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.”
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“I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day."
(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)”
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(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)”
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“National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.”
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“I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.”
― The Collected Dorothy Parker
― The Collected Dorothy Parker
“It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder―or impossible―to lose.”
― Along for the Ride
― Along for the Ride
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