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"I want to throw this book from something really high. I'm only finishing it out of a sense of obligation. I just want it to be over. Sigh." — Apr 22, 2013 06:18am
"I want to throw this book from something really high. I'm only finishing it out of a sense of obligation. I just want it to be over. Sigh." — Apr 22, 2013 06:18am
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i was afraid to read this book. i was afraid it was going to knock something loose in me, emotionally, and that it would be the book to cut the "i-don't-cry-at-books-karen" to her knees. this is a book written by dfw's widow, after his suicide, an... " Read more of this review » |
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“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II
― Adlai E. Stevenson II
“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
― Albert Einstein
― Albert Einstein
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas
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