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Now Frankie looked at the basset hound seal on the edge of her envelope and wondered briefly about her father’s society. It still existed, that was clear, and she wondered how it operated and what power it had on campus. But mostly (let’s
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“Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.”
― The Uncommon Reader
― The Uncommon Reader
“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.”
― The Uncommon Reader
― The Uncommon Reader
“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
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“Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
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