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Mientkiewicz’s tears are my lasting vivid memory of that USA Baseball gold medal victory. An improbable team captured America’s attention. A collection of promising prospects like Ben Sheets and Roy Oswalt had their careers propelled, while
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“Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.”
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“Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.”
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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
The Losers' Club: A Stephen King Podcast by Consequence of Sound
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"The Losers' Club: A Stephen King Podcast by Consequence of Sound" is a cozy, chummy place for lifelong fans and newbies to dig deep into both his oeu ...more
Night Worms Book Club
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— last activity Oct 10, 2021 09:03AM
If you are a Night Worms subscriber or just want awesome book recs, this is the place for you! We will share the books included in our monthly package ...more
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