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“Diligence does not work if there is a lack of innate talent.”
― Lust for Life
― Lust for Life
“Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.”
― A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
― A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“I’d much rather pretend I’m
somewhere else, and any time I open
the pages of a book, that happens.”
― Between the Lines
somewhere else, and any time I open
the pages of a book, that happens.”
― Between the Lines
“She is a tyrant much in the way of a bad novelist, who shapes his characters according to his own ideology or desires and never allows them the space to become themselves.”
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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