"I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to."

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Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Book Quotes #Disease Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Alex touches her arm. "You look nice." "Nice?" she repeats. "Try harder, Alex." He flushes adorably. "Really nice," he says. "Next time, try this," Harry says. He reaches for my hand. "Franny, I didn't know what beauty was until I saw you walking toward us a minute ago. "I like this better," I say, pulling away. "At least he sounded like he meant it." "I meant it," Harry says, almost irritably.”
“Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.”
“Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.”

Source : Robin Roberts, Veronica Chambers (2014). “Everybody's Got Something”, p.101, Hachette UK
“Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.”
“As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.”
“If a man does not have the sauce, then he is lost. But the same man can be lost in the sauce.”
“Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock...”

Source : Evan Harris (1996). “The Quit”, Fireside
“It's not a beard, it's an animal I've trained to sit very still”

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