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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.


Anita Brookner


#commerce #great #just #lessons #life

We keep giggling, happy and nervous, tickled by an incomplete innocence. We both sense that some dark joke is being played on us, even if we can't quite grasp the punch line.


Karen Russell


#karen-russell #home

And I’m sure they all played by the rules, just liked I did. By the way, when I got laid off four and a half years ago, the stock of my company was at an all-time high. Our CEO retired. He was paid $70 million. Maybe now that is only worth $30 million. Or maybe in a few years if he plays by the rules it will be worth $130 million. I’ll still be worth nothing. And I won’t have a home or my children. You see why I wonder about playing by the rules? Because I always do. As a result, you’re standing where I sleep.


Ken Goldstein


#laid-off #playing-by-the-rules #home

Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.


Anne Lamott


#faith

It’s not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


#inspirational #miracles #faith

I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It’s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.


Sheri S. Tepper


#family

Stirlings of old had been so damned besotted with their newfound earldom that they couldn't think to put any other name on anything...It was a wonder he didn't drink Kilmartin Tea and sit on a Kilmartin-style chair. In fact, he probably would be doing just that if his grandmother had found a way to manage it without actually taking the family into trade.


Julia Quinn


#julia-quinn #titles #family

Even in good families a bad apple can begin an avalanche of troubles,' Dutch said as he sat back in his well-seasoned armchair, lighting his curved rustic pipe. From Book I, In Blood There is No Honor


Judith-Victoria Douglas


#honor #troubles #family

Already he knew that to overdo a thing is to destroy it.


Elizabeth Enright


#fragilty #life-lessons #overdoing #simplicity #family

Well, here were the ugly facts. She had no mad-ninja-skillz to rely on and her family didn’t know where she was. She didn’t know where she was. The only way she was leaving was if this creature allowed it.


Danielle Monsch


#gargoyles #paranormal-romance #sword-and-sorcery #family






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