"How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer."

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Source : FaceBook post by Lynne Sharon Schwartz from Jun 17, 2015

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

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“Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.”
“If men want sex they'll find it.”
“I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.”

Source : 'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 1
“Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skilful than yesterday, more skilful than today. This is never-ending.”
“If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a fabricator of falsehoods, inventor of words, practised in lawsuits, a pettifogger, a rattle, a fox, a sharper, a knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an imposter, a rogue that deserves the cat-o-nine-tails, a blackguard, a twister, a licker-up of hashes; they call all this when they meet me, if they please, I care not.”
“The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.”
“I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.”
“All fish are not caught with flies”

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