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Patti Smith
“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
Patti Smith, Just Kids

Alexander McCall Smith
“The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. That’s how most people thought.”
Alexander McCall Smith, The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Volume 3

Ian Rankin
“Everyone, it seemed to him, lived their lives out of little boxes, opening different ones for different occasions. Nobody ever gave their whole self away. Cops were like that, each box a safety mechanism. Most people you met in the course of your life, you never even learned their names. Everybody was boxed off from everybody else. It was called society.”
Ian Rankin, The Hanging Garden

Nancy Pearl
“If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up.

If you're over 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.”
Nancy Pearl

Agatha Christie
“lots of women buy their clothes in Paris, and have not, on that account, necessarily poisoned their husbands.”
Agatha Christie, The Collection

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