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Cat’s Bookshelves

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graphic-novels‎ (32)
picturebooks‎ (30)

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non-fiction‎ (17)
books-in-translation‎ (14)
australian‎ (10)
favorites‎ (10)

group-read‎ (10)
italian‎ (10)
roadtrip-reads‎ (7)
dnf‎ (6)
poetry‎ (4)

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Cat’s Quotes

“It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.”
― China Miéville, Embassytown

tags: childhood, memory, youth

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“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

tags: books, history, reading

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“It was once said, and very rightly, that a man who is well brought-up may read anything. The only people who boggle at what is perfectly natural are those who are the worst swine and the finest experts in filth. In their utterly contemptible pseudo-morality they ignore the contents and madly attack individual words.”
― Jaroslav Hašek

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“My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. ”
― Spike Milligan

tags: life

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“There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by the moon, and the streetlights are part of the spotlight apparatus on a bare stage set up for you to walk through. You get a feeling of being listened to, so you talk aloud, softly, to see how it sounds.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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