“Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that kind of record, I read twenty-five books while waiting for people. In offices, applying for jobs, waiting to see a dentist, waiting in a restaurant for friends, many such places. I read on buses, trains, and plains. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long?”
― Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
― Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together?
Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.”
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Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.”
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“Did men ever look in the mirror, I wondered, and find themselves wanting in deeply fundamental ways? When they opened a newspaper or watched a film, were they presented with nothing but exceptionally handsome young men, and did this make them feel intimidated, inferior, because they were not as young, not as handsome? Did they then read newspaper articles ridiculing those same handsome men if they gained weight or wore something unflattering?”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“You’ve made me shiny, Laura,” I said. I tried to stop it, but a little tear ran down the side of my nose. I wiped it away with the back of my hand before it could dampen the ends of my new hair. “Thank you for making me shiny.”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
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