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“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.”
― Margaret Atwood , Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

“You can think clearly only with your clothes on.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?”
― Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

“I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.”
― Bill Bryson, Lost Continent: Travels In Small-Town America