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“Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature”
― A Start in Life
― A Start in Life
“When they arrived at the palace she had a word with Grant, the young footman in charge, who said it was security and that while ma'am had been in the Lords the sniffer dogs had been round and security had confiscated the book. He though it had probably been exploded.
'Exploded?' said the Queen. 'But it was Anita Brookner.”
― The Uncommon Reader
'Exploded?' said the Queen. 'But it was Anita Brookner.”
― The Uncommon Reader
“For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.”
― Look at Me
― Look at Me
“[...] no man is free of his own history.”
― Latecomers
― Latecomers
“[…] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments of pain, of fear, of danger. Everything is retrievable, every shock, every hurt. But perhaps it becomes a duty to abandon the stock of time that one carries within oneself, to discard it in favour of the present, so that one’s embrace may be turned outwards to the world in which one has made one’s home.”
― Latecomers
― Latecomers
Reading "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" in April
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As promised, on my booktube channel Marilyn Maya Mendoza, I am starting this read-along of my and many others' favorite book, "A Tree Grows In Brookly ...more
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