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“I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker

tags: book, book-lovers, books, reading, reading-books

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“I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.”
― Mary Pipher

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“I read like the flame reads the wood.”
― Alfred Döblin

tags: reading-books

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“She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

tags: english-literature, majors, reading-books

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“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.”
― Charles Baudelaire, BAUDELAIRE - the Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

tags: creativity, process

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