The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

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You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.

Read Interesting Minds

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By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Stories Are Incredibly Important

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Stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don’t understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in. ~ Neil Gaiman

A Book And A Shady Nook

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Oh for a book and a shady nook, either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries all about, where I may read at all my ease, both of the new and old, for a jolly good book, whereon to look, is better to me than gold. ~ John Wilson

Small Habits Are Underestimated

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Reading 20 pages a day = 30 books a year. Saving $10 a day = $3,650 per year. Running 1 mile a day = 365 miles a year. Becoming 1% better per day = 37% better a year. Small habits are underestimated.