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Emma
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“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
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“I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris for a while.”
― Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light
― Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
― A Moveable Feast
― A Moveable Feast
“I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.”
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“Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”
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Emma’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Emma’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
59 books
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8 friends
699 books
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10 friends
3 books
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8 friends
57 books
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79 friends
166 books
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7 friends
27 books
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2 friends
71 books
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2 friends
151 books
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4 friends
Favorite Genres
Biography, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, History, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science, Self help, Suspense, Thriller, and War
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