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20 Book Quotes To Get You Through Life

A little bit of literary wisdom to get through the day.

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20 Book Quotes To Get You Through Life
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“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”-Moby Dick by Herman Melville

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”-In A Free State by V.S. Naipaul

“It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”-The Witches by Roald Dahl

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”-Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”-Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”-The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”-Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”-The Road by Cormac McCarthy

“It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”-Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

“Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”-The Catcher in The Rye by J.D. Salinger

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.”-The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

“Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”-The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decided where to go.”-Oh, the Places You’ll Go! By Dr. Seuss

“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”-Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”-No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”-Brida by Paulo Coehlo

“Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand. All the rest is darkness.”-IT by Stephen King

“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”-The Alchemist byPaulo Coelho

“My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”-David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

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