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Danna said:
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A fine collection of short stories so far. I almost feel guilty, only paying $1.08 for a pristine first edition.
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"I somehow misplaced this hardback short story collection during my last move. My former roommate may have it in storage..." — Aug 27, 2014 10:47AM
"I somehow misplaced this hardback short story collection during my last move. My former roommate may have it in storage..." — Aug 27, 2014 10:47AM
Danna said:
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Now reading "Counterparts" from Dubliners, a so far brilliant James Joyce collection of short stories, followed by his first novel and lyrical poetry.
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"Now reading "Counterparts" from Dubliners, a so far brilliant collection of James Joyce short stories." — Sep 27, 2012 10:45AM
"Now reading "Counterparts" from Dubliners, a so far brilliant collection of James Joyce short stories." — Sep 27, 2012 10:45AM
Danna said:
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This book was a great find in the book and music department of a neat thrift store in San Antonio. There were religious weight loss books on the surprisingly organized shelves that turned me off immediately. In the book I've recently begun reading, t
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“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.”
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“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
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“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. ”
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“Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. ”
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“There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.”
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