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Sue Pit

http://pitneypost.blogspot.com

https://www.goodreads.com/cybee

Sue’s Bookshelves

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czech-republic‎ (19)
british‎ (18)
biography‎ (15)

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science‎ (10)
autobiography‎ (8)
italy‎ (8)
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german‎ (6)
humour‎ (4)
nature‎ (4)

canada‎ (3)
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essays‎ (3)
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magic-realism‎ (2)
myanmar-burma‎ (2)

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Sue’s Quotes

“For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: pain-memories-compassion

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“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: mistake, prophecy

24 likes

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works

tags: truth

679 likes

“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: be-terse, writing-advice

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“We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: discovery, life, world

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