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“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”
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“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
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“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
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“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
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“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― The History Boys
― The History Boys
Addie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Addie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
217 books
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49 friends
765 books
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79 friends
321 books
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172 friends
126 books
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28 friends
152 books
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37 friends
330 books
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45 friends
101 books
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22 friends
58 books
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18 friends
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