Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. - Angela Carter - Quotesmemo.com

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As far as he knew, I was dying.

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Angela Carter

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

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What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?

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Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things.

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It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

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To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

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The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.

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Mickey Mantle

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As far as he knew, I was dying.

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When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.

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Rob Lowe

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We all have a suspicion and hope that we've just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. That no one else knows this makes it seem like we are living with a secret that we would like to share, but can't, sort of like having a superpower that's not come online or being president elect. For the moment, our lives proceed as usual, but within a month, we think, everything will change. It's a frustrating, if exciting, disconnect.

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Mitch Hedberg

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Cavities are made by sugar. So if you need to dig a hole, then lay down some candy bars!

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Gertrude Diamant

I like weather better than climate. The dry season is a gold vacuum; but the rainy season has change, which is weather. And while climate may create a race, weather creates the temper and sensibility of the individual.

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