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Read in November 2014. Among countless books I wish I'd had time and energy to review. The five star rating is my personal system for denoting books I want to return to as often as I can because they've left such a strong impression on me... spoken t
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Justices to profit from their functions, and more duties meant more profit even in a poor town, as Copynger’s wealth bore witness. To me his ostentation sat ill with his humourless, pious air. But that was the new type of man we were
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“The object of art is to give life a shape,’ said Shakespeare. And my life –and my mess of a mind –needed shape. I had ‘lost the plot’. There was no linear narrative of me. There was just mess and chaos. So yes, I loved external narratives for the hope they offered. Films. TV dramas. And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity.”
― Reasons To Stay Alive
― Reasons To Stay Alive
“Overhyped books are the empty calories of the literary world.”
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“Because inside there is a golden you who loves you and wants you to win and prevail and be happy. #reasonstostayalive”
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― Reasons To Stay Alive
“You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”
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― The Testaments
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