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“Read Purgatorio, if nothing else. It’s just like Vacca Vale. Like a travel guide. Honestly.”
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“Novels hadn't interested her for a long time now: not for a moment could she tear her mind away from her own life and concentrate on somebody else.”
― Sofia Petrovna
― Sofia Petrovna
“As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.”
― Dance Dance Dance
― Dance Dance Dance
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
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“...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again. I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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The first book we will be reading is "Beautiful Ruins" by Jess Walter. "Hopscotching between 1960s Italy and contemporary Hollywood, “Beautiful Ruins” ...more
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