“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”
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“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.”
― The Winter Room
The book needs you.”
― The Winter Room
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
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“Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”
― Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1
― Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1
Denise’s 2025 Year in Books
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