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The Night Watchman - “When he needed to calm his mind, he opened a book. Any book. He had never failed to feel refreshed, even if the book was no good.”
Louise Erdich
The Nickel boys - “You can change the law but you can’t change people and how they treat each other.”
Colson Whitehead
Less -“Just for the record: happiness is not bullshit.”
Andrew Green
The Goldfinch -“Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.”
Donna Tartt
Olive Kitteridge -“She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people.”
Elizabeth Strout
The Road - “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
Cormac McCarthy
Rabbit at Rest -“That's the genius of the capitalist system: Either you're rich, or you want to be, or you think you ought to be.”
John Updike
The Color Purple -“People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
Alice Walker
The Old Man and the Sea - “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
Ernest Hemingway
The Grapes of Wrath - “There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
John Steinbeck
Dragon's Teeth - “Say the very simplest and most obvious things, say them as often as possible, and put into the saying all the screaming passion which one human voice can carry -- that was Adolf Hitler's technique."
Upton Sinclair
Gone with the Wind - “My dear, I don't give a damn.”
Margaret Mitchell
The Good Earth - “The rich are always afraid.”
Pearl S. Buck
Arrowsmith - “I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies”
Sinclair Lewis
All the King's Men - “There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.”