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"I'm having trouble continuing to read this. It is a lot wordier than I expected and the story is progressing slowly.
I think I'll put it on hold for a while." — Apr 10, 2016 07:41AM
"I'm having trouble continuing to read this. It is a lot wordier than I expected and the story is progressing slowly.
I think I'll put it on hold for a while." — Apr 10, 2016 07:41AM
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"First story down. I hear the others in this book are better than the first which I look forward to. Not that I didn't like the first story, but i'm glad it ended when it did...much more and I might have switched off." — Oct 08, 2014 10:08PM
"First story down. I hear the others in this book are better than the first which I look forward to. Not that I didn't like the first story, but i'm glad it ended when it did...much more and I might have switched off." — Oct 08, 2014 10:08PM
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""It is a temporary preservative, like the nitrites in your sausages. Eventually any meat, regardless of what you do to it, will either and go off."" — Sep 11, 2014 08:03AM
""It is a temporary preservative, like the nitrites in your sausages. Eventually any meat, regardless of what you do to it, will either and go off."" — Sep 11, 2014 08:03AM
“But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
“Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded. "I ate civilization.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― Hamlet
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― Hamlet
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