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Linda is Currently Reading

Linda is currently reading

The Hero and the Crown (Damar, #2)

by Robin McKinley

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Dombey and Son

by Charles Dickens

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Granta 73: Necessary Journeys

by Ian Jack

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Linda’s Quotes

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading

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“You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.”
― Carolyn Kizer

tags: writing

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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humor

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“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”
― E.M. Forster, What I Believe and Other Essays

tags: friendship, honour, inspirational

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“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

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