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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

“The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.”
― Ava Gardner

“The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”
― Monica Ali, Brick Lane

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“My ambition was to live like music.”
― Mary Gaitskill

“. . . 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.”
― Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984