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“In plain words, you’ve got to make up your mind to study whatever you undertake, and concentrate your mind on it, and really work at it. This isn’t wisdom. Any damned fool in the world knows it’s true, whether it’s a question of raising horses or writing plays. You simply have to face the prospect of starting at the bottom and spending years learning how to do it.”
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“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
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“Chris liked to scan a page, and then quickly leap to another. I liked to dawdle over the beautiful lines, going back to read through them twice, sometimes three times. We argued incessantly about this. "Read faster, Cathy! You try to absorb the words.”
― Flowers in the Attic
― Flowers in the Attic
“At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
“She will try to find the nice way to exercise intelligence. But intelligence is not ladylike. Intelligence is full of excesses. Rigorous intelligene abhors sentimentality, and women must be sentimental to value the dreadful silliness of the men around them. Morbid intelligence abhors the cheery sunlight of positive thinking and eternal sweetness; and women must be sunlight and cheery and sweet, or the woman could not bribe her way with smiles through a day. Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized. Any vital intelligence has passionate questions, aggressive answers; but women cannot be explorers; there can be no Lewis or Clark of the female mind.”
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Jacy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jacy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
9,007 books
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118 friends
567 books
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39 friends
557 books
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63 friends
476 books
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22 friends
11,415 books
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31 friends
148 books
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21 friends
278 books
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95 friends
102 books
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90 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Fiction, Graphic novels, History, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, and southern-gothic
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