#100daysofbookquotes: Quote week: 15

#100daysofbookquotes: Quote week: 15

We are finally here. I am super happy and proud to share the final leg aka the Week 15 ofof #100daysofbookquotes.I know there have been times that I thought I was gonna go off the bandwagon but hey, I scrapped through.

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Week 1      Week 2   Week 3    Week 4

Week 5    Week 6    Week 7    Week 8

Week 9    Week 10   Week 11  Week 12

Week 13 Week 14

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“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. “I’m okay” we say. “I’m alright”. But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can’t get it off. That’s when you realize that sometimes it isn’t even an answer–it’s a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

 

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“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.” 
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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The last stretch before I reach my milestone of  #100daysofbookquotes. Stay back and take a look at how things have been around here. 

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092

There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest. – Anaïs Nin

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 093

“The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance.” 

― Shannon L. Alder

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 095

“We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them 

behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.”

—Tom Stoppard, Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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 095

“Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.” 

― Charles Bukowski

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 096

“I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.

Scout” 

― Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

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 097

“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.” 

― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

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098

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” 

― Stephen KingOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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So near yet so far to the D Day. Yes almost miraculously we are near the completion of the #100daysofbookquotes. Stay back and take a look at how things have been around here. 

 

 

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Week 9    Week 10   Week 11  Week 12

 

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“Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?” 

 

― Justin Alcala

 

 
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“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.” 

 

― George Carlin

 

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“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” 

 

― Oscar Wilde

 

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88
“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.” 

 

 

 

― Benjamin Franklin Wade

 

 
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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do 

 

with your one wild and precious life?” 

 

― Mary Oliver 
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“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of 
taking educated people seriously.” 

 

― G.K. Chesterton

 

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91
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless
 they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
 

 

― Voltaire

 

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Back to the routine. Here is our round  up the week’s quotes and hey we are close to the 100th day. Yippie.
Wondering what is the series about?

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“That’s the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.”

 

― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

 

 
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“[T]he time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right” 
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman
 
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80
“Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.” 
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum 
 
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81
Whenever somebody tells me to do something my instinct’s always to do the opposite. It’s got me into a lot of trouble, but I’ve had a lot of fun.”
― John Updike, Rabbit at Rest
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82
“I know 
you and I
are not about poems or
other sentimental bullshit
but I have to tell you
even the way 
you drink your coffee
knocks me the fuck out.
Clementine von Radics 
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83

“What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.”

― Anaïs Nin, House of Incest
 
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“The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse. ” 
― Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories and the City
 
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I know I know I have been not regular in posting quotes – guilty as charged. But you know what, I am back- with a bang – no more stopping until we reach the 100 day mark, what say?
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71
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I’m neurotic as hell. I’ll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.” 
― Sylvia PlathThe Bell Jar
 
 
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72
“There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.” 
― Woody Allen
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73

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not. – Mark Twain
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 74

“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.” 
― Philip K. Dick
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75
“I learned that the world didn’t see the inside of you, that it didn’t care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.” 
― Khaled HosseiniAnd the Mountains Echoed
 
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76
“Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.” 
―  Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

 

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“I was told love should be unconditional. That’s the rule, everyone says so. But if love has no boundaries, no limits, no conditions, why should anyone try to do the right thing ever? If I know I am loved no matter what, where is the challenge?”

 GILLIAN FLYNN, GONE GIR#100daysofbookquotes#quoteoftheday,#KhaledHosseini

 

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