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“Empathy is thin gruel compared to the marrow of existence.”

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“Books make the best ersatz friendships.”

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Book:Locked and Loaded

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“...the sixth [eligible lady] perished miserably after returning to me one of my most cherished books with the leaves dog-eared and the binding cracked. For I hold with the greatest philosophers that she who maltreats a book will never make a good wife.”

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Book:The Romance of an Old Fool

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“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus”

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“Billy read the Bible from cover to cover while he was in the suck, every Marine got one on request. He has often regretted it and this is one of those times. The Bible has a story to puncture every equivocation and denial. The Bible – New Testament as well as Old – does not forgive.”

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Book:Billy Summers

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“Remember what I said about being in a Dickens novel, only with swears? You know why people read books like that? Because they’re so happy that fucked-up shit isn’t happening to them.”

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Book:Later

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“Books are strange. No matter how many times you open it and read it, you still are excited and happy.”

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“That’s why I want to study Russian literature. I want to understand what it is we’re scared of. At a deep level.”

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Book:She's a Killer

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“Such is a community of inviolable immunity, protected from tampering or harpooning mutiny. Every better thinker’s impulse to shrink us (at the shoreline from our lifeblood’s deep pulse) uses disparaging scrutiny to sink us.”

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“It was a figure of a whale, with a white triangle that was supposed to be its spray. The spray moved up and down above the blowhole. On top of the spray sat a black-haired woman.”

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Book:Whirligig

Source: Whirligig

“Almost all the world is natural chemicals, so it really makes you re-think everything. A cup of coffee is filled with chemicals. They've identified a thousand chemicals in a cup of coffee. But we only found 22 that have been tested in animal cancer tests out of this thousand. And of those, 17 are carcinogens. There are ten milligrams of known carcinogens in a cup of coffee and thats more carcinogens than you're likely to get from pesticide residues for a year!”

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Author:Bruce Ames