"For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die."

-- Anne Lamott

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“Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is improved by the multiples of those with whom it is shared.”

Source : Jesse Browner (2004). “The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“When you write a novel, there's a level at which you are much more revealing about who you are because you're less self-conscious about how you're presenting yourself. You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.”
“The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.”
“Twant me, 'twas the Lord. I always told him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me,' and He always did.”
“A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.”
“What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.”
“The mind messes up more shots than the body.”

Source : Tommy Bolt, William C. Griffith (1969). “How to keep your temper on the golf course”
“We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch usâ€”anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.”

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