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Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor

by Vladimir Nabokov

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Jul 29, 2023 01:15AM

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Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man

by Lynn Vincent (Goodreads Author)

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

by Robert M. Pirsig

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Book cover for My Year of Rest and Relaxation

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

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“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

tags: words

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“Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
― Emily Dickinson

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“I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

tags: novel

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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters

tags: poetry, power-of-words

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