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“The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe — I have thought since — I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But”
― The Island of Doctor Moreau
― The Island of Doctor Moreau
“I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting…. I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children.”
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“Sit here,
so I may write
you into a poem
and make you
eternal.”
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so I may write
you into a poem
and make you
eternal.”
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“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
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“It’s lovely loving, isn’t it? In fact, I find it almost better, because being loved sometimes embarrasses me, but loving is a gift.”
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Discovering Russian Literature
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Literary Exploration
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