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Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me

by Mimi Pond (Goodreads Author)

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“Would there be no end to publishing, he wondered? Perhaps it would be a good idea if everyone just stopped writing for a couple of years, and allowed readers to catch up.”
― John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky

tags: insightful

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“Books have been vastly important in my life - as both a reader and a writer. I've learned that the great gift of literature is that someone else's tale becomes a chapter of your story. And I still feel books are the best art form for making contact with another consciousness, which is why reading a good book by yourself never feels lonely.”
― Bob Smith, Treehab: Tales from My Natural, Wild Life

tags: books, literature, reading

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“What we, the audience, bring when we come to the theater - what we might be feeling that day. What might have happened to us. That is a big part of what a play is.”
― Richard Nelson, Sweet and Sad

tags: audiences, plays, theater

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“Pam was a struggling artist who made everyone's life difficult. She only wore black and after becoming acquainted with her I couldn't decide if this was a deliberate fashion choice or whether it was physically impossible for any color to escape from the gravitational pull of her dark and bitter personality.”
― Bob Smith

tags: bitterness, black-clothing, humor

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“Early in the morning of October 8, 1991, Mrs. Florence A. Snegg of Uvula, Michigan, was having an extremely vivid dream in which her son, Russell, was involved in a terrible automobile accident. Suddenly she was awakened by the ringing of her telephone. On the line was a Missouri state trooper, calling long distance to remind Mrs. Snegg that she had never had children”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

tags: humor, strange-phenomena, supernatural

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