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"As the storyteller, I need you on my side. And we know that a story is only as good as its beginning." — Sep 14, 2025 09:48PM
"As the storyteller, I need you on my side. And we know that a story is only as good as its beginning." — Sep 14, 2025 09:48PM
“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
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“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.”
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“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street”
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Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street”
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“When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.”
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“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
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Elizabeth Taylor - Just one to begin with . . .
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Jola’s 2025 Year in Books
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