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“So many books, so little time.”
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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
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“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
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“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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“A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.”
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Martha’s 2025 Year in Books
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