On November 3, 1957, just 32 days after the launch of Sputnik 1, Russia successfully launched Sputnik 2, and this time, the satellite contained a living space traveler—a dog named Laika.
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.”
― The Giver
― The Giver
“He smells like a bunch of rotting fruit, wrapped in a bunch of rotting meat, and then left to rot further in a rotting asshole.”
― Fill the Grand Canyon and Live Forever
― Fill the Grand Canyon and Live Forever
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