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Marc Acito

"So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish one without being in the middle of another -- anything to stop me from falling into the big, gaping void. You see, books fill the empty spaces. If I'm waiting for a bus, or am eating alone, I can always rely on a book to keep me company. Sometimes I think I like them even more than people. People will let you down in life. They'll disappoint you and hurt you and betray you. But not books. They're better than life."

Source : Marc Acito (2009). “How I Paid for College: A Tale of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater (reissued)”, p.98, Bloomsbury Publishing

Marc Acito

#Hurt Quotes #Book Quotes #Fall Quotes

“Not to remember 9/11, is to forget what brought it about.”
“It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.”
“The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.”
“Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.”
“When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.”
“What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but I have found out, as have others who move in and out of newspaper headlines, that on occasion it can matter a good deal. For once you enter the world of headlines you learn there is not one truth but two: the one which you know from the facts; and the one which the public, or at any rate a highly imaginative part of the public, acquires by osmosis.”

Source : Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.8, Island Press
“When a juvenile commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.”
“Being in relationship is not living in a fantasyland and don`t think that everything's going to be perfect all the time. You will go through phases where you're just not getting along. You're not communicating well. That's going to happen, and it's going to feel impossible to you sometimes. It might not even make sense to you sometimes. Arguments are normal. You have to be patient and sit through that and remember that this is a part of human communication and interaction. You're going to have these conflicts with anyone. It's not necessarily just that person.”

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