Emily

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Emily’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (154)
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read‎ (480)
fiction‎ (244)
nonfiction‎ (137)
2024‎ (56)
suspense‎ (53)
memoir‎ (47)
2019‎ (41)
2023‎ (36)
2025‎ (34)

2022‎ (31)
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2018‎ (28)
history‎ (28)
autobiography‎ (24)
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2020‎ (21)
2014‎ (20)
sociology‎ (20)
2017‎ (19)

self-help‎ (19)
the-best-ones‎ (19)
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2013‎ (12)
2016‎ (12)
epidemiology‎ (11)
2015‎ (9)
2021‎ (9)
psychological‎ (8)
abandoned‎ (7)
humor‎ (4)

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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: 1920s, amecian-fiction, fitzgerald, jazz-age-stories

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“The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.”
― Salman Rushdie

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“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t

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“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

tags: love

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“Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude.”
― Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

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