"In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan, to watch the great impersonal universe at work again and again That is why I read: I want everything to be okay. Thatâ€™s why I read when I was a lonely kid and thatâ€™s why I read now that Iâ€™m a scared adult."

-- Mary Ruefle

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“The best things in life must come by effort from within, not by gifts from the outside.”
“I don't understand how people can stand next to you one year,and next year, they cannot. They're going crazy, screaming. They can't take it that you're there. But last year I was in the same club,walking around,lonely like a motherfucker. Couldn't get a date or a dance. I was too skinny, too something, and now, "He's just adorable. He's just, oh!”
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

Source : Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.41, Simon and Schuster
“Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about the ways that understanding our own history helps make us who we are. Michelle Brafman is an insightful writer who never falters or flinches in her quest to uncover the hearts of her characters.”
“I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.”

Source : "Jude Law: 'I was a great champion of the human spirit. I lost that for a time'". Interview With Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2011.
“So softly Lizzy has to lean over to hear me, I say, 'I can't face the world until I know why I'm here.' You're kidding me.' I shake my head vehemently. 'No. I need to figure out my purpose. Until I do, what's the use of getting up?”
“Our real world has evolved. It's become something much different, and inadvertently about healthcare, and about what it means to have good health, and to be able to have good health.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Even though I have fond feelings for comedy clubs, I enjoy the focus you get in a theater. Comedy clubs are a different animal. People are being served nachos and there's a blender going off in the background.”

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