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Courtney Courtney said: " This book improves upon rereading, because the misunderstandings and subtle notes and cues make much more sense. I also HIGHLY recommend supplementing your reading by watching Emma Approved on YouTube; utter delight! "

 
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Alena Graedon
“But let me say this, and I'll say it only once: don't fool yourself into thinking you're just on a detour as you sail home for Ithaca. A little pit stop, if you like, with the Lotus-Eaters or Calypso. There's no Athena interceding on your behalf. No guarantee you'll eventually arrive. If there's something you really want in life - especially if it's something that scares you, or you think you don't deserve - you have to go after it and do it now. Or in the very long you'll be right: you won't deserve it.”
Alena Graedon, The Word Exchange

Adania Shibli
“But despite this, there are some who consider this way of seeing, which is to say, focusing intently on the most minor details, like dust on the desk or fly shit on a painting, as the only way to arrive at the truth and definitive proof of its existence. There are even art historians who make these same claims. All right, they don’t exactly claim to notice fly shit on a painting, but they do make a point of focusing on the least significant details, not the most significant ones, in order to determine, for example, whether a painting is an original or a copy. According to them, when art forgers imitate a painting, they pay attention to major, significant details, like the roundness of the subject’s face or the position of the body, and these they reproduce precisely. However, they rarely pay attention to little details like earlobes or fingernails or toenails, which is why they ultimately fail to perfectly replicate the painting.”
Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

Julia Pierpont
“The best use of family was having it in front of other people.”
Julia Pierpont, Among the Ten Thousand Things
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Nora Ephron
“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
Nora Ephron

John Steinbeck
“You're bound to get ideas if you go thinking' about stuff.”
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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