Camilla Vestergaard

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Camilla is Currently Reading

Camilla Vestergaard is currently reading

The Country Girls

by Edna O'Brien

bookshelves: currently-reading, fiction, irish

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Dec 24, 2025 05:55AM

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Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

by Elizabeth Gilbert (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 15, 2024 11:04AM

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Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

by Robert Wright

bookshelves: currently-reading, contemporary, non-fiction, philosophy, american, audiobook

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Oct 15, 2024 11:03AM

“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: achievement, authors, elements-of-style, favors, grammar, happiness, writing, writing-process

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“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
― Hermann Hesse

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“There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

tags: writing

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“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: baths, deeds, depression

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“Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand, and the next thing that happened was we kissed each other, and I found I knew how, and I felt happy and sad in equal parts, because I knew that I was falling in love, but it wasn't with him.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

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