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Sylvia Townsend Warner
“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

Sigrid Nunez
“Your whole house smells of dog, says someone who comes to visit. I say I'll take care of it. Which I do by never inviting that person to visit again.”
Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

Elizabeth Bowen
“You must show him your monkey: I am sure he will like that.”
Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris

Sigrid Nunez
“Consider rereading, how risky it is, especially when the book is one that you loved. Always the chance that it won't hold up, that you might, for whatever reason, not love it as much. When this happens, and to me it happens all the time (and more and more as I get older), the effect is so disheartening that I now open old favorites warily.”
Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

Sigrid Nunez
“Once again I come upon his famous definition of love: two solitudes that protect and border and greet each other.”
Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt
Best Books of 1994
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O Pioneers! by Willa CatherSwann’s Way by Marcel ProustThe Custom of the Country by Edith WhartonThe Wanderer by Alain-Fournier
Best Books 1913
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