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“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.”
― Diane Johnson

“Men are generally more law-abiding than women. Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them. ”
― Diane Johnson

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“That is the prize: to realize, at the end, that every minute was worth fighting for with every ounce of blood and fire.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels