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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here. — Harper Lee

Inside the music like this, she understood many things. She understood that Simon was a disappointed man if he needed, at this age, to tell her he had pitied her for years. She understood that as he drove his car back down the coast toward Boston, toward his wife with whom he had raised three children, that something in him would be satisfied to have witnessed her the way he had tonight, and she understood that this form of comfort was true for many people, as it made Malcolm feel better to call Walter Dalton a pathetic fairy, but it was thin milk, this form of nourishment; it could not change that you had wanted to be a concert pianist and ended up a real estate lawyer, that you had married a woman and stayed married to her for thirty years, when she did not ever find you lovely in bed. — Elizabeth Strout

Or, as they're commonly referred to, the "Big Five. — Kevin Dutton

The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good; and many a good book has remained unwritten ... because there floated before the mind's eye the ideal of a better or a best. — Richard Chenevix Trench

Anything can happen, in spite of what you're pretty sure should happen. — Richard Feynman

I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility ... — Charlotte Bronte

The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman. — James Cash Penney

I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive. It is already enormously great, as every man of every party must acknowledge, if he would candidly express his sentiments. — John C. Calhoun