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“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

“There is no place like home.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

“Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
― Lorrie Moore

“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“MEN WAGE WARS for profit and principle, but they fight them for land and women.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram