"The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books."

-- Walter Benjamin

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“I'm fine," I told him tersely. "Of course you are. You're one of the strongest people I know." It took me a second to process that, because he'd said it so casually. Like he was talking about the weather or what time it was. Only Pritkin didn't say things like that. His idea of a compliment was a nod and to tell me to do whatever it was I'd just done over again. Like that was usually possible. But that had sounded suspiciously like a compliment to me.”
“Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.”
“Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.”
“On a global stage, I have respect in the goalkeeping world.”
“We all use the future to escape the present.”

Source : John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.47, Penguin
“I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't sit though the nigh crying when such horrors happen all the time.”
“So finally, I decided that the best response â€” the safest â€” was none at all.”
“Plant trees, Lots of trees”

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