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My father’s happiness. It was a precious gift in itself, as perhaps my mother’s anxiety was a perpetual spanner thrown into her works. For my mother never made miniature legends of her life, and was singularly without stories, though I am
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“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
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“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.”
― The Collected Dorothy Parker
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.”
― The Collected Dorothy Parker
“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
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“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”
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The Life of a Book Addict
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Brilliant Books You've Never Heard Of
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