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“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?”
― Politics and the English Language
― Politics and the English Language
“I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.”
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“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
― Romeo and Juliet
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
― Romeo and Juliet
Cassandra’s 2025 Year in Books
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