Carol Apple
http://secretlifeofareader.com/
wisdom: “To imagine that such an entire environment [earth] is an accident is, I see now, intellectually outrageous as well as emotionally sterile.”
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. ”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― The Partly Cloudy Patriot
― The Partly Cloudy Patriot
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“Literature is news that stays news.”
― ABC of Reading
― ABC of Reading
“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
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