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“The job she had to do, as she saw it, was to remember everything—and by “remember” she meant experience it in her mind, one more time—then store it away forever. This day’s experience set in order, none of it left ragged or lying about, all of it gathered in like treasure and finished with, set aside.”
― Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
― Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
“It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets —no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!”
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“She had always presumed that once people got to be twenty-three, they were Too Old, yet she was not old enough to content herself with brooding over the past like Marcel Proust, whose book she was reading on the plane, and who obviously had nothing more pressing to do than regard the years as a museum filled with beautiful reproductions of lost jealousy and bygone fashion. In another sense, she felt herself to be an Innocent Virgin---too young.”
― Sex & Rage
― Sex & Rage
Dolly ’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Dolly ’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
444 books
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35 friends
286 books
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20 friends
474 books
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19 friends
1,232 books
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71 friends
427 books
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26 friends
109 books
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7 friends
165 books
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19 friends
22 books
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7 friends
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