"books are like confort food without the calories"

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Elizabeth Berg

#Book Quotes #Calories Quotes

“Well â€” when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures â€” all these little stars That shake out of my cloak â€” I must save those To use for asterisks...”
“As I swept the last bit of dust, I made a covenant with myself: I will accept. Whatever will be, will be. I have a life to lead. I recalled words a friend had told me, the philosophy of her faith. "Life is a journey and a struggle," she had said. "We cannot control it, but we can make the best of any situation." I was indeed in quite a situation. It was up to me to make the best of it.”
“After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.”
“Men must always have distinguished (e.g. in judicial matters) between hearsay and seeing with one's own eyes and have preferred what one has seen to what he has merely heard from others. But the use of this distinction was originally limited to particular or subordinate matters. As regards the most weighty matters the first things and the right way the only source of knowledge was hearsay.”
“I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.”
“A great gift is an answer waiting for a question.”
“The court does not fly off the handle. It does not shout abuse. It speaks calmly.”
“Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain...”

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