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Colleen Colleen said: " Strouse uses Sargent's Wertheimers portraits as a jump off point to discuss different aspects of Edwardian England, Europe, and United States. Nominally a family biography, Strouse also considers other prominant Jewish families like the Rothschild an ...more "

 
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Jonathan Safran Foer
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
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Henry Ward Beecher
“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
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G.K. Chesterton

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