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"For as much as I looked forward to this, I'm really struggling to get into it. Going to return it to the library for now so others on hold can read it and try again another time" — Sep 03, 2023 05:31AM
"For as much as I looked forward to this, I'm really struggling to get into it. Going to return it to the library for now so others on hold can read it and try again another time" — Sep 03, 2023 05:31AM
“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
― The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
― The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
“That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn't react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they'd backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you.”
― The Girls
― The Girls
“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
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“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
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“I found myself remembering the day in kindergarten when the teachers showed us Dumbo, and I realized for the first time that all the kids in the class, even the bullies, rooted for Dumbo, against Dumbo's tormentors. Invariably they laughed and cheered, both when Dumbo succeeded and when bad things happened to his enemies. But they're you, I thought to myself. How did they not know? They didn't know. It was astounding, an astounding truth. Everyone thought they were Dumbo.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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