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Reading for the 13th time
read in January 2016
The Rivals
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MRS. MALAPROP. You thought, Miss!—I don't know any business you have to think at all—thought does not become a young woman; the point we would request of you is, that you will promise to forget this fellow—to illiterate him, I say, quite
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“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― The Uncommon Reader
― The Uncommon Reader
“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
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“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
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“Whoever enforces equality itself brings inequality.”
― MORALITY An Individual Dilemma
― MORALITY An Individual Dilemma
“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
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