

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
― The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”
― The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”

“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night

In the epigraph to Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Gertrude Stein is credited with coining the term 'lost generation' to describe the group of ...more
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