"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both."
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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known," Final line of Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk.
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"The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen." - last sentence of the Bible
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“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
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“Then he crossed his arms over his chest and began to listen to the radiant voices of the slaves singing the six o’clock Salve in the mills, and through the window he saw the diamond of Venus in the sky that was dying forever, the eternal snows, the new vine whose yellow bellflowers he would not see bloom on the following Saturday in the house closed in mourning, the final brilliance of life that would never, through all eternity, be repeated again.” -“The General in His Labyrinth” by Gabriel GarcĂa Márquez (tr. Edith Grossman)
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"yes I said yes I will Yes." The conclusion of Molly Bloom's soliloquy in James Joyce's Ulysses is the most life-affirming ever written. Plus, it means you made it through the whole book!
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"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which" Animal Farm
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I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you? Stephen King, The Body
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Oh hmm, this is a good prompt 🤔 I’m going to have to think on this one and go through some of my books
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Follow the bouncing ball: There is a Hand to turn the time, Though thy Glass today be run, Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low Find the last poor Pret’rite one. . . Till the Riders sleep by ev’ry road, All through our crippl’d Zone, With a face on ev’ry mountainside, And a Soul in ev’ry stone. . . Now everybody— Gravity’s Rainbow
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"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" - Gone with the wind
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Mental Floss
Happy Friday! Question of the Week(end): What book has the best ending line? đź“š
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