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I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never to engage in a fight you’re sure to lose. On the other hand, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
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I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
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Life he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is a mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.
The Last Song - Nicholas Sparks
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Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time.
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
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As a writer, all you can do is pick a street and go for the ride.
The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
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The greater the discouragements of the journey, the keener I was to press on and embrace my new life.
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
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What had given the illusion of closeness that evening was only our regret for the past, our sadness that the world doesn’t stand still.
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
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You so quickly get used to peace. It is like being well - you take it for granted, and forget that when you were ill, to be well again had seemed everything.
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
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Time, the discoverer of truth.
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
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I knew there was more to me than my setting and routine showed.
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
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I wondered about the nature of my aspirations, the very supports of my existence; and I began to feel that any life I might have anywhere - however rich and successful and better furnished - would only be a version of the life I lived now.
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
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Small things can start us off in new ways of thinking.
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
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