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America had shifted from what the influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality—and opened up a Pandora’s Box of personal anxieties from which we would never quite recover.
“You’ll meet her. She’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many days at a time. You’ll see, when she smiles, you’ll love her.”
― El laberinto del fauno
― El laberinto del fauno
“Looking back on one’s life, you see that love was the answer to everything.”
― The Night Eternal
― The Night Eternal
“(Lisa Henson about her father) He admired the job of the man who walks along the road picking up trash with a long stick. He thought that guy had a great job, walking along with a stick, enjoying the road, and doing only good in the world, with hundreds of small actions.”
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“The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children. ”
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“I found out that Willy Wonka had failed at the box office. It seems strange now to think that Roald Dahl’s morality story wasn’t embraced. I was told that many mothers thought the lessons in the movie were too cruel for children to understand. As the years since have proven, children don’t have any trouble understanding the movie—they crave to know what the boundaries are. It was the mothers who had a little difficulty.”
― Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search for Love and Art
― Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search for Love and Art
Allie’s 2025 Year in Books
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Comics, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Horror, Manga, Paranormal, Poetry, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, and Young-adult
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