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I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend… — Douglas Coupland
would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick. — Truman Capote
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth… — H. L. Mencken
The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect:… — Paul Theroux
I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what… — Jane Austen
There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence,… — Miguel de Cervantes
A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling,… — Sherwood Smith
How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark." "A whale isn't a fish, Thursday." "A whale shark… — Jasper Fforde
This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some… — Douglas Coupland
I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid. — L. Frank Baum
I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of… — Charles Bukowski
There are two kind of men,' said Ka, in a didatic voice. 'The first kind does not fall in love until he's seen how the… — Orhan Pamuk
She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species. — Christopher Moore
Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true. — Mary Ann Shaffer
A man's library is a sort of harem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always thought the name of Utahâ€™s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word â€œdesert.â€ But no, Deseret is the â€œland… — A. J. Jacobs
She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost. — Melissa Bank
He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people. — Ken Kesey
The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit natureâ€¦ the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling… — H. L. Mencken
People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the… — Alice Hoffman

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