"But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons."

-- Jonathan Coe

#Book Quotes #Trying Quotes #Reason Quotes

“If you're going to be passionate about something, be passionate about learning. If you're going to fight something, fight for those in need. If you're going to question something, question authority. If you're going to lose something, lose your inhibitions. If you're going to gain something, gain respect and confidence. And if you're going to hate something, hate the false idea that you are not capable of your dreams.”
“At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.”
“The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.”

Source : William McFee (1916). “Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul”
“For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
“The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.”
“When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.”
“To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome.”
“Holmstrom has broken an Olympic record by being cross checked 46 times in one game!”

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