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““In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be the greatest civility.””

Jane Hamilton

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“I’ve found it takes at least two and generally three things to alter the course of a life: You slip around the truth once,…

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From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation…

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We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that…

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“I will hear a noise, like a fish jumping, and when I look I'll see Lizzy coming to the surface, shaking off her pink…

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I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an…

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“The two or so times we actually fought she smashed a plate and stormed out into the night. I have always disliked an argument.…

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This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

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She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

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“Wait." Walter went to the basket, taking what was a gray sleeve, drawing it out fro the middle of the heap. "Oh," He said.…

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The magical descriptions of Italy and hilarious observations about love, travel, natives and foreigners in Love in Idleness are but a few of its…

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I had forgotten what it was like, to be drawn to a person...I'd forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when they move,…

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There were so many miracles at work: that a blossom might become a peach, that a bee could make honey in its thorax, that…

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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