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Memorable lines from literature. #Literature #Quotes

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“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

#GeorgeBernardShaw #Immaturity

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“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.” ~ Samuel Beckett

#SamuelBeckett #Murphy

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“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).” ~ Lewis Carroll

#LewisCarroll #AlicesAdventuresinWonderland

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“Not all those who wander are lost.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

#JRRTolkien #TheFellowshipoftheRing

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“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” ~ Charles Dickens

#CharlesDickens #DavidCopperfield

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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.” ~ Shirley Jackson

#ShirleyJackson #TheHauntingofHillHouse

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“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.” ~ Jonathan Swift

#JonathanSwift #GulliversTravels

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“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.” ~ Zadie Smith

#ZadieSmith #WhiteTeeth

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“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.” ~ George Eliot

#GeorgeEliot #Middlemarch

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“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” ~ Toni Morrison

#ToniMorrison #SongofSolomon

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“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.” ~ Mary Shelley

#MaryShelley #Frankenstein

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“I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.” ~ Doris Lessing

#DorisLessing #TheGoldenNotebook

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“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!” ~ Edith Wharton

#EdithWharton #TheAgeofInnocence

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“You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.” ~ Herman Hesse

#HermanHesse #Steppenwolf

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“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.” ~David Foster Wallace

#DavidFosterWallace

#ASupposedlyFunThingIllNeverDoAgain

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“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.” ~Virginia Woolf

#VirginiaWoolf #Orlando

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“What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?” ~Allen Ginsberg

#AllenGinsberg #Howl

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“But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.” ~James Joyce

#JamesJoyce #Dubliners #Araby

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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” ~George Orwell

#GeorgeOrwell Orwell #1984

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“We all owe death a life.” ~ Salman Rushdie

#SalmanRushdie #MidnightsChildren