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  • #1
    Herman Melville
    “We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
    Herman Melville

  • #2
    Marguerite Duras
    “Very early in my life it was too late.”
    Marguerite Duras, The Lover

  • #3
    Marguerite Duras
    “...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.”
    Marguerite Duras, Blue Eyes, Black Hair

  • #4
    Marguerite Duras
    “You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.”
    Marguerite Duras, Practicalities
    tags: love, men

  • #5
    Sylvia Plath
    “How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #6
    Bette Davis
    “When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
    Bette Davis

  • #7
    Virginia Woolf
    “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
    Virginia Woolf, Orlando

  • #8
    Milton Berle
    “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”
    Milton Berle

  • #9
    Milan Kundera
    “The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #10
    Milan Kundera
    “Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The criminal regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts convinced they had discovered the only road to paradise. They defended that road so valiantly that they were forced to execute many people. Later it became clear that there was no paradise, that the enthusiasts were therefore murderers.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: 188

  • #11
    Helene Hanff
    “I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.”
    Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

  • #12
    Helene Hanff
    “I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.”
    Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

  • #13
    Helene Hanff
    “If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.”
    Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

  • #14
    Helene Hanff
    “But I don't know, maybe it's just as well I never got there. I dreamed about it for so many years. I used to go to English movies just to look at the streets. I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for. I said I'd go looking for the England of English Literature, and he nodded and said: "It's there.”
    Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

  • #15
    Helene Hanff
    “Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?”
    Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

  • #16
    Helene Hanff
    “I wish you hadn't been so over-courteous about putting the inscription on a card instead of on the flyleaf. It's the bookseller coming out in you all, you were afraid you'd decrease its value. You would have increased it for the present owner. (And possibly for the future owner. I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.)”
    Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

  • #17
    Helene Hanff
    “It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.”
    Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road



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