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"Reading because author Stefan Kiesbye listed it as one of his favorites in the interview I did with him for The Los Angeles Review of Books
https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/inte..." — Oct 04, 2018 06:49PM
"Reading because author Stefan Kiesbye listed it as one of his favorites in the interview I did with him for The Los Angeles Review of Books
https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/inte..." — Oct 04, 2018 06:49PM
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"I am wanting to like this book, but so far as fan fiction, or hearing the other’s side of the story, Wide Sargasso Sea it ain’t. I’m going to keep going." — Sep 06, 2018 09:02AM
"I am wanting to like this book, but so far as fan fiction, or hearing the other’s side of the story, Wide Sargasso Sea it ain’t. I’m going to keep going." — Sep 06, 2018 09:02AM
“A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.”
― The Mysteries of Udolpho
― The Mysteries of Udolpho
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“The Voice
There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you--just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.”
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There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you--just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.”
―
“Art and revolt will die only with the last man.”
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“When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk.”
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