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- The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.
- You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see…
- Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even…
- Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we're so…
- It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually…
- Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.
- A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a…
- Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junk mail.
- Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay…
- All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.
- Desperate times call for desperate measures" is an aphorism which here means "sometimes you need to change your facial expression in order to create a…
- Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the…
- Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something…
- The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if…
- At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you…
- Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.
- Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations…
- If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and…
- It is very frustrating not to be understood in this world. If you say one thing and keep being told that you mean something else,…
- One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck of cards" or…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes