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No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home.
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them
Polite conversation is rarely either.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Second hand books are wild books...
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man...
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some to be chewed on and digested.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book
The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.
The less we know, the longer our explanations.
The longest journey of any person is the journey inward
The low brow and the high brow
The most successful people are those who are good at plan B
The only completely consistent people are the dead
The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place
The Flower Sisters
by Michelle Collins Anderson
From the new Fannie Flagg of the Ozarks, a richly-woven story of family, forgiveness, and reinvention.
The Stolen Child
by Ann Hood
An unlikely duo ventures through France and Italy to solve the mystery of a child’s fate.
Every good journalist has a novel in him - which is an excellent place for it.
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