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But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that's when I bought a Kindle. I have like 15 books on this one little gizmo. But when I came home, the first night I picked up the book that was on my nightstand and I went right back to that. ↗

— Lisa See

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Less than a decade after the Great Exhibition, iron as a structural material was finished—which makes it slightly odd that the most iconic structure of the entire century, about to rise over Paris, was made of that doomed material. I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time. ↗

— Bill Bryson

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now look, she said, stretched out on the bed, I don’t want anything personal, let’s just do it, I don’t want to get involved, got it? she kicked off her high-heeled shoes… sure, he said, standing there, let’s just pretend that we’ve already done it, there’s nothing less involved than that, is there? what the hell do you mean? she asked. I mean, he said, I’d rather drink anyhow. and he poured himself one. it was a lousy night in Vegas and he walked to the window and looked out at the dumb lights. you a fag? she asked, you a god damned fag? no, he said. you don’t have to get shitty,... ↗

— Charles Bukowski

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I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

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And when again it’s morning, they’ ll wash away. Here it’s safe, here it’s warm Here the daisies guard you from every harm ↗

— Suzanne Collins

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Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

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He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse. ↗

— Joe Meno

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I think the more we fill our lives with more and more things we have to do, the less and less time we are spending on who we have to be. ↗

— Patrick Rhone

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Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself. ↗

— Seth Godin

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