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1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

by Haruki Murakami

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Jan 17, 2026 04:39PM

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Several Short Sentences About Writing

by Verlyn Klinkenborg

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Feb 26, 2025 05:16PM

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The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)

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“The nicest thing André ever said about me was ‘She’s Beauty and the Beast, I like the idea that nobody’s one or the other. You can be the regular girl and you can be the monster at the same time. They’re one and the same. The beast doesn’t have to be an evil or a destructive thing. It’s about possibility and feeling and emotion and all of that stuff.”
― Julianne Moore

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“But sometimes when you’re too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

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“There was something in him, lighter than ego but darker than insecurity, that needed constant buffing, polishing, waxing.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

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“You ever feel like home is the one place you can’t go back to? It’s like you promise yourself when you got out of bed and combed your hair that this evening, when I get back I’ll be a different woman in a new place. And now you can’t go back because the house expects something from you.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

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“Can people do that? Can people want to be with someone all the time, okay most of the time and yet also wish they were alone? And not in little compartments but at once? At the same time? All the time? I want to be alone but I need not to be.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

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