“Sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, or pushing people down to get you where you want to go... soon your gonna find stealing other people toys on the playground won't make you many friends...”
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“We know we are very special,” Davis writes in “Special”: “Yet we keep trying to find out in what way: not this way, not that way, then what way?” (from James Wood's review of the FSG "Collected Stories of Lydia Davis")”
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“Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently.”
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“Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.”
― The Undomestic Goddess
― The Undomestic Goddess
“Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.”
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Shawn’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Shawn’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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