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“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
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“Intense love always leads to mourning.”
― The Triumph of Achilles
― The Triumph of Achilles
“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.”
― Selected Poems of Mark Strand
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.”
― Selected Poems of Mark Strand
“Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
we ourselves flash and yearn”
― The Dream Songs
After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
we ourselves flash and yearn”
― The Dream Songs
Jill’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jill’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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