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The Bell Jar
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It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.
One of the best opening lines of a novel IMO
“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
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“Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
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