“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
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“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
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“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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