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“and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you”
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E.E. Cummings
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#2
“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.”
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Julia Child
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#3
“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
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Sherwood Anderson
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“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
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Michael Ondaatje,
The English Patient
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#5
“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
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Anne Rice,
The Vampire Lestat
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#6
“That, darling, is the only thing that counts for someone to see more in you than you ever imagined was there.”
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Arthur Japin,
In Lucia's Eyes
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#7
“To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”
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Geoffrey Wolff
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#8
“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
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John Guare,
Landscape of the Body
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#9
“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
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Keri Hulme,
The Bone People
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#10
“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
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Edward Gorey
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#11
“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
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Ian Fleming
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#12
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
The Little Prince
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#13
“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
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Pablo Neruda,
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
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#14
“We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.”
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Laurie Halse Anderson,
Wintergirls
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#15
“Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
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Stieg Larsson,
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
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Rebecca Walker,
Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence
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#17
“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”
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John Steinbeck,
Of Mice and Men
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#18
“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
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Lorraine Hansberry
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#19
“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
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Haruki Murakami,
Norwegian Wood
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#20
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”
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Tom Clancy
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#22
“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
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Orhan Pamuk,
Snow
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#23
“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
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Henry James
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“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”
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Stieg Larsson,
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
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C.S. Lewis
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#26
“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
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Bill Watterson
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#27
“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
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Raymond Chandler,
The Long Goodbye
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#28
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
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Paulo Coelho,
The Alchemist
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#29
“En u, u bent zo opgewekt?’
‘Ach mevrouw,’ zei de man, ‘je hebt vier spieren nodig om te lachen en tweeëndertig om boos te kijken. Dan weet ik het wel, hoor. Prettige dag nog.”
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Toni Coppers,
Stil bloed
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“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
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Jeanette Winterson
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