“People relate giving to reciprocity. They expect things to be expressed in a way they can understand, which is usually their own.”
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“People relate giving to reciprocity. They expect things to be expressed in a way they can understand, which is usually their own.”
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@anniewithbooks.bsky.socialIt is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
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@dicatrio.bsky.socialReligion in a nutshell…
“Elmer had, even in Zenith, to meet plenty of solemn and whiskery persons whose only pleasure aside from not doing agreeable things was keeping others from doing them.”
- from Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".”
@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“...humanity often prefers the familiar over the unknown...”
- Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“To sue to live, I find I seek to die; and, seeking death, find life.”
- Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
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@anaiskireiholm.bsky.social"Yesterday was no more."
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“You cannot be who you are not. Simply rest, sit still and unknot. You may even try to emulate and inspire,But it's the inner self that you'll transpire.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all. The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Irony alone is damning.The flesh will be bland and you will believe you are forever reading the same book.”
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@darlenedeluca.bsky.socialIt's Book Quote Wednesday, and today's word is "treat." Do some good . . . #holidayromance #snowstorm #bookquotes #bookquotewednesday
@anaiskireiholm.bsky.socialFrom Chapter 9—“By the time I left, I thought a bigger city would let me be.”
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@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
- The Iliad by Homer
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