January 2012
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“Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to...”
– Lemony Snicket
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To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never,...
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“There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. Their place...”
– Sara Zarr
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“He had in those days imagined himself capable of extraordinary heroisms and...”
– Graham Greene
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“Staring into someone’s eyes for a long time is psychic. At first it’s very...”
– Steve Abbott
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his...”
– Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
“By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
– Arthur Rimbaud
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“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot...”
– Elizabeth Taylor
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“Why be timid? Death is coming.”
– S. Amstell
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“You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.”
– Jeffrey Eugenides
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“It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to...”
– Jon Katz
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“Books can be possessive, can’t they? You’re walking around in a bookstore and a...”
– Sarah Addison Allen
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“It’s amazing how you can get so far from where you’d planned, and yet find it...”
– Sarah Dessen