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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
“On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy's hands. One nibbles at them and they are delicious. Into a little round place at the side of the apple has been gathered all its sweetness. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with them. Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.”
― Winesburg, Ohio
― Winesburg, Ohio
“To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.”
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“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“we are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of true romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. i do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone. this is what makes your self-respect so important, and i don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness”
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