"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."

-- Douglas Coupland

#Book Quotes #Giving Quotes #Loan Quotes

“The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.”
“Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.”
“I think so, too. I know I felt that way. For years. It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start.”

Source : Jess Walter (2013). “Beautiful Ruins”, p.55, Penguin UK
“Love lift us up where we belong.”

Source : Song: Up Where We Belong
“Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.”

Source : A.J.P. Taylor (1996). “Origin Of The Second World War”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
“What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.”
“Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.”
“Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work,”

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