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Top Quotes from Top Books of All Time

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“...for human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born..”

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

José Saramago

“A worthy relationship is an agreement that challenges and supports both participants.”

The Unfinished Book About Who We Are

Joseph Rain

“The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention.”

Watermark

Joseph Brodsky

“The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.”

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

John le Carré

“It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button. ”

Stand on Zanzibar

John Brunner

“There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.”

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Joanne Greenberg

“I know it's not thematically in tune with my new job and all, but I find it effective. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I say. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.”

Cold Days

Jim Butcher

“Love is friendship gone mad.”

That Wedding

Jillian Dodd

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