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And Introducing Dexter Gaines: A Novel of Old Hollywood

by Mark B. Perry (Goodreads Author)

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The Winter Goddess

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Book cover for The Little Colonel at Boarding-School

The Little Colonel at Boarding-School by Annie Fellows Johnston

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'How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done.'

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“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: inspirational, women

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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: book, inspirational

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“Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.”
― Deborah Levy, Swimming Home

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“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: dreams, fantasy, life, living, pain, suffering

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“She was not a poet. She was a poem.”
― Deborah Levy, Swimming Home

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