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Bleak House
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I had for a moment an undefinable impression of myself as being something different from what I then was. I know it was then and there that I had it. I have ever since connected the feeling with that spot and time and with everything
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Right here, at the 49% mark, is what James Scott Bell calls the mirror moment - the midpoint of the emotional arc. It blows my mind that so many books have them. That Dickens had one - in a serial, no less.
“Even though life hands you a big pile of shit, you don’t have to roll around in it and make shit angels.”
― The Dark Light of Day
― The Dark Light of Day
“A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.”
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“Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word.
"Equals?" Miles hazarded.
"Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.”
― The Vor Game
"Equals?" Miles hazarded.
"Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.”
― The Vor Game
“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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