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“Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.”
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“Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?”
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“I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.”
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“My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.”
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“Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.”
― This Craft of Verse
― This Craft of Verse
Liz’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Liz’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
852 books
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96 friends
341 books
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177 friends
11 books
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50 friends
0 books
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71 friends
30 books
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25 friends
183 books
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597 friends
1 book
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24 friends
40 books
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33 friends
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