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Anyone who's read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles.

Anyone who’s read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles.
– Lorrie Moore

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  2. It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles. – Niccol Machiavelli
  3. The formula was simple: E + F + C = M. That is, excitement plus fatigue, plus confusion equals mistakes. – Rutledge Etheridge
  4. Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
  5. Let us revenge this withour pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know Ispeak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge. – William Shakespeare
  6. It’s true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus. – Erin Bow
  7. Books require titles reading them doesn’t – Alan Moore
  8. The qualities required to be a good leader are usually incompatible with the qualities required to become a leader. – Francis Mont
  9. The night before, a whole day could have shape and design. But when it was upon you, it could vanish tragically to air. – Lorrie Moore
  10. So I needed to be womanised. I was losing my sheen. – Lorrie Moore
  11. She wore a lot of gray-green corduroy. She had been under the impression that it brought out her eyes, those shy stars. – Lorrie Moore
  12. The turkeys I eat are raised on farms. They’re different. They’ve signed on the dotted line. – Lorrie Moore
  13. Marriage, she felt, was a fine arrangement generally, except that one never got it generally. One got it very, very specifically. – Lorrie Moore
  14. Through college she had been a feminist-”basically: she shaved her legs, but just not often enough, she liked to say. – Lorrie Moore
  15. But it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific and empty in the eyes. – Lorrie Moore
  16. Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain… – Lorrie Moore
  17. The passive voice could always be used to obscure blame. – Lorrie Moore
  18. And all love that had overtaken her would have to be a memory, a truck on the interstate roaring up from the left, a thing she must let pass. – Lorrie Moore
  19. I had one elegantly folded cookie-”a short paper nerve baked in an ear. – Lorrie Moore
  20. Life is sad. Here is someone. – Lorrie Moore
  21. I don’t have a love life. I have a like life.’Mamie smiled. She thought how nice that might be, to be peacefully free from love… – Lorrie Moore
  22. She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love. – Lorrie Moore
  23. Sky-bound was the mind, Earth-bound the body rests – Johannes Kepler
  24. Our lives are bound up with the lives of others. Our joy is bound up with the joy of others. – Ken Wytsma
  25. All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing – and he won’t be missed either. – GK Chesterton
  26. The part of something is missing and the remaining part is itself not able to explain what part is missing. – Neetesh Dixitxit
  27. The missing aren’t missing, they’re only departed – Trenton Lee Stewart
  28. And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
  29. A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself. – Marcel Proust
  30. I couldn’t quite understand how an ordinary man’s good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man. – Albert Camus
  31. My imagination plus Vibrizzio is not only equal to but also greater than a real man. Why should I settle for second best? – Nicki Elson
  32. In this world, it is not worth finding anyone’s faults. One becomes bound (by karma) by finding faults. – Dada Bhagwan
  33. Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. – Groucho Marx
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  36. Titles don’t mean anything. What really matters is the impact you make on a daily basis! – Akilnathan Logeswaran
  37. Noble leaders choose: wisdom over wealth, knowledge over fame, understanding over honor, virtue over titles, and people over power. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  38. Anger has great strength,but no brains.Greed has many hands,but no heart.Fear has many titles,but no honor.Hate has many forms,but no soul. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  39. The world is not interested in titles and positions, all it wants is your creative mind and the genuinity of the work your hands. – Euginia Herlihy
  40. Beautiful princesses and beautiful, strong queens are brainwashed into thinking ho’s and B****’s are virtuous titles. – Delano Johnson

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