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“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
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“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
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“A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”
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Amanda’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Amanda’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Children's, Christian, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Self help, Spirituality, books-about-books, writing, anthologies, retellings, fairy-tale-retellings, adaptations, fairy-tales, fractured-fairy-tales, short-stories, short-story-collection, medieval, humanities, and magical-realism
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