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He hated his father for leaving his mother on that night forty years earlier, and he hated his mother for not leaving his father every day since.
Love this line. Very powerful.
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“I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)”
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“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
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“He hated his father for leaving his mother on that night forty years earlier, and he hated his mother for not leaving his father every day since.”
― Facing the Sun
― Facing the Sun
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“If you don't hate your darlings a little by the time they go to press, you haven't edited them enough.”
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