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Life of Pi

by Yann Martel

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Elisa’s Quotes

“Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”
― Carlos Fuentes

tags: carlos, fuentes, genre, writing

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“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: inspirational

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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

tags: books

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