Marsia

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Marsia’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (73)
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read‎ (804)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
coming-of-age-stories‎ (5)
family-sagas‎ (4)
from-the-south‎ (3)

contemporary-literary‎ (2)
detective-mystery-procedurals‎ (2)
unclassifiable‎ (2)
1930s-1940s‎ (1)
autobiography‎ (1)
classics‎ (1)
fiction-memoirs‎ (1)

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posthumous-publications‎ (1)
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thrillers‎ (1)
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mysteries‎ (0)

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novels-set-in-the-1930s-40s‎ (0)
novels-set-in-the-1950s‎ (0)
novels-set-in-the-1960s‎ (0)
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Marsia’s Quotes

“It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad,
they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman

43 likes

“The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.”
― Kate Atkinson, Human Croquet

118 likes

“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”
― Ann Richards

tags: dance, dancing, politics, texas, women

2287 likes

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: inspirational, life-happiness

1916 likes

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson