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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie

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The Patrick Melrose Novels

by Edward St. Aubyn

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The Portable Dorothy Parker

by Dorothy Parker

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“...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.”
― Alasdair Gray

tags: economics, writing

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“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

tags: bibliotherapy, books, escape, good-habits, life, pleasure, reading, refuge

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“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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