#memoir

In those days, there was no money to buy books. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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A lifelong movie I already knew the ending to ↗

— Jason Najum

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No furniture is so charming as books. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see. ↗

— Arthur Golden

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Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live? ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

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You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#friends #pity #school #schoolmates #memoir

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to? ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

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The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it. ↗

— M.C. Halliday

#historical #memoir #life