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The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood
5.0
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
The first great novel to teach us that the search for self is as surely undertaken while making small talk in the drawing room asit is while pursuing a great white whale. (Pride & Prejudice)
She managed to leave drunk and disappointed, but not inspired.
Everyone has left tonight so we can have the world to our selves, perhaps?
December 1921 - 1st night Hemingway & Hadley spent in Paris.
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. P&P
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. The Great Gatsby
Daisy - All the bright precious things fade so fast...and they don't come back.
A classic is a book everyone's heard of but no one reads - Mark Twain
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say - Italo Calvino
Nick - It eluded us then, but that's no matter-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
Gatsby - Her voice is full of money.
Fitzgerald once said that you don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.
Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.
And the noise of her life didn't make her tense or angry or depressed like it did without the pills. Instead, there was a low hum somewhere deep in her brain and her limbs felt loose and rubbery.
As soon as I ate the oysters, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and make plans.
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. Anna Karenina
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. AK
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
He liked the feel of the wood of a well-worn bar. The smell of beer from the tap, of whiskey, of night.
Just as the doctor predicted, she died, swiftly and horribly.
But standing there, the air that peculiar blend of warm and cold at the same time, she thought perhaps it would be better to be outside, to get fresh air and feel the sun.
"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls." - One Hundred Years of Solitude
"Jane," her mother said evenly, "you deserve to live a beautiful life. I deserve to give mine up."
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." - To Kill a Mockingbird
With him, life was routine. Without him, life was unbearable.
We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it. - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
It Don't Mean A Thing If You Ain't Got That Swing - theme song for a funeral
Penny came up to me and gave me the firmest handshake. And a Manhattan. I fell in love with her immediately.
To look at everything always as though you were looking at it for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory. - ATGIB
You grieve because you didn't hold it tighter when you had it.
But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave. - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Largest unsupported marble domes in the world - St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the Minnesota state capitol, the Taj Mahal and Providence statehouse.
It is so short and jumbled and jangled because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. - S-5
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. - George Bernard Shaw
Unstuck in time - travels between different times and places in his life, and can't control which period he lands in. Every moment in time is in it (the fourth dimension) and keeps occurring and reoccurring simultaneously and endlessly.
The first great novel to teach us that the search for self is as surely undertaken while making small talk in the drawing room asit is while pursuing a great white whale. (Pride & Prejudice)
She managed to leave drunk and disappointed, but not inspired.
Everyone has left tonight so we can have the world to our selves, perhaps?
December 1921 - 1st night Hemingway & Hadley spent in Paris.
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. P&P
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. The Great Gatsby
Daisy - All the bright precious things fade so fast...and they don't come back.
A classic is a book everyone's heard of but no one reads - Mark Twain
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say - Italo Calvino
Nick - It eluded us then, but that's no matter-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
Gatsby - Her voice is full of money.
Fitzgerald once said that you don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.
Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.
And the noise of her life didn't make her tense or angry or depressed like it did without the pills. Instead, there was a low hum somewhere deep in her brain and her limbs felt loose and rubbery.
As soon as I ate the oysters, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and make plans.
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. Anna Karenina
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. AK
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
He liked the feel of the wood of a well-worn bar. The smell of beer from the tap, of whiskey, of night.
Just as the doctor predicted, she died, swiftly and horribly.
But standing there, the air that peculiar blend of warm and cold at the same time, she thought perhaps it would be better to be outside, to get fresh air and feel the sun.
"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls." - One Hundred Years of Solitude
"Jane," her mother said evenly, "you deserve to live a beautiful life. I deserve to give mine up."
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." - To Kill a Mockingbird
With him, life was routine. Without him, life was unbearable.
We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it. - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
It Don't Mean A Thing If You Ain't Got That Swing - theme song for a funeral
Penny came up to me and gave me the firmest handshake. And a Manhattan. I fell in love with her immediately.
To look at everything always as though you were looking at it for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory. - ATGIB
You grieve because you didn't hold it tighter when you had it.
But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave. - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Largest unsupported marble domes in the world - St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the Minnesota state capitol, the Taj Mahal and Providence statehouse.
It is so short and jumbled and jangled because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. - S-5
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. - George Bernard Shaw
Unstuck in time - travels between different times and places in his life, and can't control which period he lands in. Every moment in time is in it (the fourth dimension) and keeps occurring and reoccurring simultaneously and endlessly.