February 2012
19 posts
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“But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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“Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope...”
– Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
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“He knew that I love you also means I love you in a way that no one loves you, or...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal,...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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“I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart, someone...”
– Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
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“If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to...”
– Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed...”
– James Baldwin, Go Tell It On The Mountain
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“I consider conversations with people to be mind exercises, but I don’t...”
– Jarod Kintz, It Occurred To Me
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“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one…Humans are...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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“…I hadn’t realized how much I’d been needing to meet someone I...”
– Elizabeth Berg, Talk Before Sleep
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“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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“The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It...”
– Charles de Lint, Memory and Dream
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“I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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“And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not...”
– Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
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“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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“It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them...”
– Toni Morrison, Beloved
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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without...”
– Aristotle, Metaphysics
January 2012
7 posts
13 tags
“Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery...”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
11 tags
“Literature could turn you into an asshole: he’d learned that teaching...”
– Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
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“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
– Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
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“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their...”
– Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
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“If you can do no good, at least do no harm.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick
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“It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.”
– Zora Neal Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
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“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock,...”
– Charles Bukowski, Factotum
December 2011
19 posts
8 tags
“If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
– Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
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“You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
– John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
19 tags
“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane....”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
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“I don’t know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it...”
– J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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“I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it...”
– Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
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“I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit,...”
– Yann Martel, The Life of Pi
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“Writing is a job, a talent, but it’s also the place to go in your head. It...”
– Ann Patchett, Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
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“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things...”
– Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot
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“To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect...”
– Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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“She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so...”
– Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
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“Your life doesn’t mean what you have or what you get. It’s what...”
– Richard Ford, Wildlife
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16 tags
“I shall start at the beginning. Though of course the beginning is never where...”
– Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
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“Everything we can’t bear in this world, someday we find in one person, and love...”
– Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
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“I think that if I ever have kids and they are upset, I won’t tell them that...”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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“My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what...”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
November 2011
16 posts
20 tags
“There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as...”
– Ian McEwan, Atonement
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“…at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you...”
– Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
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“Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words...”
– James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
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“As it was, we all acted alone, we were caught alone, and every one of us will...”
– Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone
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“Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They...”
– Paulo Coelho, The Zahir