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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“أنت الذي تلون حياتك بنظرك إليها, فحياتك من صنع أفكارك، فلا تضع نظارة سوداء على عينيك”
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“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
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“Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.”
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Ala'a’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ala'a’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
116 books
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1,785 friends
77 books
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18 friends
515 books
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4,969 friends
1 book
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17 friends
300 books
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18 friends
1 book
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20 friends
99 books
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61 friends
143 books
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19 friends
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