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Read any good books lately? Try any of these.

"...[the sleeping pills were]... for great sleepless artists who had to die for a few hours in order to live for centuries." -- Nabokov, Lolita

"Do we invent God because we're helpless,... or does God render us helpless so that we might pray?" -- Peck, A Bed By the Window

"The hardest thing was to forget that he had said on the banks of the canal that he still loved her." -- Binchy, Circle of Friends

"Sometimes what appears abnormal is a normal reaction to a crazy-making situation." -- Covan, Ph.D., Crazy All the Time

"Girls need to be encouraged to be the sexual subjects of their own lives, not the objects of others'." -- Pipher, Ph.D., Reviving Ophelia

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a human." -- Mark Twain

"Once you get past all the Mr. Vinsons, you're going to start getting closer and closer--that is, if you want to, and if you look for it and wait for it--to the kind of information that will be very, very dear to your heart. Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangment. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry." -- Mr. Antolini, The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger

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