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“Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.”
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“Her death the dividing mark: Before and After.”
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“I am gifted at blending myself into any given milieu—you've never seen such a typical California teenager as I was, nor such a dissolute and callous pre-med student—but somehow despite my efforts, I am never able to blend myself in entirely and remain in some respects quite distinct from my surroundings, in the same way that a green chameleon remains a distinct entity from the leaf upon which it sits, no matter how perfectly it has approximated the the subtleties of the particular shade.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“In my own humorless state I failed to see anything except what I construed as certain tragic similarities between Gatsby and myself.”
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“well that's the wonderful thing about books, that's the thing that books can do that no other art form can do: when we read a great book we do internalize it, it becomes part of us; when we read a great book we put it down and we're different people.”
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Carole’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Carole’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
311 books
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3,069 friends
529 books
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68 friends
0 books
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85 friends
897 books
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72 friends
164 books
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62 friends
172 books
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15 friends
2 books
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124 friends
17 books
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29 friends
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