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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. - Jessamyn West

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. – Jessamyn West

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It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. – Jessamyn West

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Forgiveness
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Jessamyn West
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There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. – Jessamyn West

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communication
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Jessamyn West
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From my point of view, a book is a literary prescription put up for the benefit of someone who needs it. – S.M. Crothers

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Books

The book borrower…proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures…as by his failure to read these books. – Walter Benjamin

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Books

He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. – Arabic proverb

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Books

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication. – Logan Pearsall Smith

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Books

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Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debuging Mondays code. – Dan Salomon

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Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. – Robert Byrne

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