What are your favourite lines from any novel?

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You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.
-Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

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Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.- Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

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Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous
-Three Men in a Boat

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Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.
- The Anthills of Savannah

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The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.
Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

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Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.  
- Winston S. Churchill

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There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. - The Kite Runner

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"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."
- Lemony Snicket -

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Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book-
those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord.
Ruskin Bond