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“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines

“She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.”
― Case Histories
― Case Histories

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