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Jess O
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“Life has to end. Love doesn't.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again. ”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it...fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf - your book, your romanced autobiography. We are all in the flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo sapiens.”
― The French Lieutenant’s Woman
― The French Lieutenant’s Woman
“Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. This should make a bond that held them all together; it should make them love and protect each other against the man-world. But it was not so. It seemed like their great birth pains shrank their hearts and their souls. They stuck together for only one thing: to trample on some other woman... whether it was by throwing stones or by mean gossip. It was the only kind of loyalty they seemed to have. Men were different. They might hate each other but they stuck together against the world and against any woman who would ensnare one of them.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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