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What good were real feelings anyway?

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I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you're reading something that's killing you, put it down and read somethi...more

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You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.

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There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.

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You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.

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Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-dr...more

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She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything

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I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs that don't fit, ...more

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(from his random observations after reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens)In the Old Curiosity Shop I discovered that in the character of Dick ...more