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“Now is the time for guts and guile”
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“He almost dared to say that her graying mustache gave her a military look, a more distinguished air: his private smile at the thought he had withheld ruffled her as much.”
― Angel
― Angel
“The whole point is that writing has a pattern and life hasn't. Life is so untidy. Art is so short and life so long. It is not possible to have perfection in life but it is possible to have perfection in a novel.”
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“the problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure there going to have some pretty annoying virtues”
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“Her work failed her. She had reached a desperate, claustrophobic stage of being imprisoned halfway in a novel: there was too much behind her for her to retreat and not a glimmer of light ahead. She sat for hours without writing, staring at the last few wrods on the page, seeing no significance in them. Her characters fell into frozen poses, speech died on their lips: they had sat at a banquet for weeks and she had not the power to bring them to their feet again.”
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Mary’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Biography, Children's, Christian, Classics, Cookbooks, History, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Self help, Spirituality, Travel, politics, and social justice
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