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I Who Have Never Known Men

by Jacqueline Harpman

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Gurj’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for In Other Words: A Memoir (Italian Edition)

In Other Words: A Memoir (Italian Edition) by Jhumpa Lahiri

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you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement.

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“Shades of a new morning standing still are worse than the shades of night. At least a person can understand the dark of night. It’s not fickle like the day.”
― Sarah E. Wright, This Child's Gonna Live

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“Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.”
― Ossie Davis

tags: art, power

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“A smile is the universal welcome.”
― Max Eastman, The Sense of Humor

tags: smile, welcome

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“The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth”
― Robinson Jeffers

tags: age, beauty, youth

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“The idea came to me complete from start to finish – a most unusual occurrence, as any writer will tell you, for ordinarily a story has to be struggled with, changed around and mixed up.”
― Philip Van Doren Stern

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