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“Did you ever want to be a writer?” “No,” she said, and she would have told him. “I only wanted to be a reader.”
“Manuscripts don't burn.”
― The Master and Margarita
― The Master and Margarita
“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
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“Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.”
― The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
― The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
“Just like a murderer jumps out of nowhere in an alley, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once”
― The Master and Margarita
― The Master and Margarita
“That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
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