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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

-- W. Somerset Maugham

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To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.

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A woman's love is strange and cruel and nearly always clear-sighted, love that sees is always horrible love, and she knew walking away was right and so she walked, dismissing the cries as only another part of the boy's development, like smiles from gas or scraped knees.

-- Stephen King

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In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

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Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it occurred to me that this was the pleasure and mystery of reading, as well as the answer to those who say that books will disappear. For now, books are still the best way of taking great art and its consolations along with us on a bus.

-- Francine Prose

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The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

-- Harvey Firestone

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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

-- Ambrose Bierce

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I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

-- George Eliot

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People rise to the occasion without hesitation when they feel inspired and challenged.

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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

-- M. F. K. Fisher

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