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"*The Day They Burned the Books*
The light weight prose flows like breeze and carries the melancholic note quite smoothly in this story. The experiences of a white Creole childhood come alive in vivid yet sharp dialogues. The undercurrent of tension between it racial or interpersonal etches a part of you but doesn’t drag it down." — May 08, 2025 01:54AM
"*The Day They Burned the Books*
The light weight prose flows like breeze and carries the melancholic note quite smoothly in this story. The experiences of a white Creole childhood come alive in vivid yet sharp dialogues. The undercurrent of tension between it racial or interpersonal etches a part of you but doesn’t drag it down." — May 08, 2025 01:54AM
“Madame Picard believed that a child should be allowed to read anything: 'A book never does any harm if it is well written.' While she was there, I had once asked permission to read Madame Bovary and my mother, in an oversweet voice, had said: 'But if my darling reads books like that at his age, what will he do when he grows up?' 'I shall live them!' This reply had met with the most complete and lasting success.”
― The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre
― The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre
“His secretive nature detested the purpose of all interviews, their oppressive intimacy, their inescapable reality.”
― Call for the Dead
― Call for the Dead
“It was impossible to rush plants, to tell a tree to ‘hurry up’. In envy, in admiration and with ambition, I began to call that pace ‘Tree time’.”
― How I Became a Tree
― How I Became a Tree
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