"Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work."

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Source : Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.432

Berthold Auerbach

#Healing Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Companion Quotes

“Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.”
“I have this firm belief that I am who I am for a reason. If I change something, I'm cheating myself of whatever it is I'm supposed to learn from my body. You know, I'm legally blind. I'm 20/750, since I was in fifth grade. I wear glasses and contacts. But I won't even get LASIK.”
“A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.288, Macmillan
“I'm the candidate who forgot to take off her hat before she threw it in the ring.”
“Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?”

Source : "Fictional character: Bruno". "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas", www.imdb.com. 2008.
“SARS is just made up by the Government of the United States!”
“When I moved to New York to act I was no good at working restaurants - hosting, waiting, bussing, dishwashing - I wasnt good at any aspect. But I did have a guitar. So I would sing Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard, but you would only hear the chorus because the train comes by every 30 seconds.”
“Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as that character lives.”

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