"Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp."

-- Lewis H. Lapham

#Book Quotes #Diaries Quotes #Letters Quotes

“A compassionate soul is inner beauty,”
“When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.”
“I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.”
“I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.”
“My boyfriend asked me to tell a story without my hands, and I couldn't talk.”
“I'm happy to always be included in the list of women. I'd like to be in the sections about female leaders and male leaders. Why not?”

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“Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him.... Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables.”
“No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.”

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