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Moses: God or crowd control?!?
Reading keeps you from going ga-ga.
His writings have made me his friend.
I don't want to be married just to be married.
I much prefer whining to counting my blessings.
I don’t know whether to feel flattered or hunted.
Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.
The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.
Humour is the best way to make the unbearable bearable.
Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.)
My worries travel around in my head on their well worn path
I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.
Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.
He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing
After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.
Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.
People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can -- just like mad dogs.
Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.
Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it.
Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass.
We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.
In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown
Then i imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.
If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor
What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.
Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.
I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga.
Those times, I tried to think of something happy, something I'd liked - but not something I loved, for that made it worse.
I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.
Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.
She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)!
Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.
Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes.
Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right - he'll keep you company, be your friend, never ask you no questions. Cats is different, but I never held that against them.
I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true.
Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment.
I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.
I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.
one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now
Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes useful hints - "When adding eggs, break the shells first.
I never met a man half so true as a dog. Treat a dog right, and he'll treat you right. He'll keep you company, be your friend, and never ask you no questions. Cats is different, but I never held that against 'em.
Friends, show me a man who hates himself, and I'll show you a man who hates his neighbours more! He'd have to – you wouldn't grant anyone else something you can't have for yourself – no love, no kindness, no respect!
But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I've said, there was only one. Seneca. . .Maybe that sounds dull, but the letters aren't - they're witty. I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.
Isn't that something-to know your own soul by hearsay, instead of its own tidings? Why should I let a preacher tell me if I had one or not? If I could believe I hada soul, all by myself, then I could listen to its tidings all by myself.
Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings & Sons Bookshop upon receiving your letter. I have gone to them for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted.
When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim. Writers ought to live far inland or next to the city dump, if they are ever to get any work one. Or perhaps they need to be stronger-minded than I am.
All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after all, what's good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. But it's a lie. The story is about to begin, and every day will be a new piece of the plot.
That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.