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“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.”
― 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
― 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
― Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
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That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
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