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The Amalfi Curse

by Sarah Penner (Goodreads Author)

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Memory Wall

by Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author)

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The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization

by Paul Strathern

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Night by Elie Wiesel

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to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness,

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ducky’s Quotes

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology

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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading, writing

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