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Collin Shea
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“Human reason is beautiful and invincible.
No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books,
No sentence of banishment can prevail against it.
It puts what should be above things as they are.
It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master.”
― Selected Poems
No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books,
No sentence of banishment can prevail against it.
It puts what should be above things as they are.
It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master.”
― Selected Poems
“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
― Damage
― Damage
“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
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[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
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“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'
I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!”
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I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!”
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Collin Shea’s 2025 Year in Books
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Biography, Book Club, Children's, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, Horror, Mystery, Poetry, Science, Thriller, and Young-adult
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