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"actually loaned the book before finishing it -- a great primer for reading Shakespeare, with the added bonus of learning descriptive phrases for bodily functions..." — Dec 11, 2012 04:22AM
"actually loaned the book before finishing it -- a great primer for reading Shakespeare, with the added bonus of learning descriptive phrases for bodily functions..." — Dec 11, 2012 04:22AM
“How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.”
― The Names
― The Names
“So many books, so little time.”
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“In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would be a great service to tell girls who plan to work in society to expect this subtle, uncomfortable discrimination--tell them not to be quiet, and hope it will go away, but fight it. A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination”
― The Feminine Mystique
― The Feminine Mystique
“I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?”
― The Adventure of the Dying Detective - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
― The Adventure of the Dying Detective - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
“There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is lost before it reaches you. Late one night the telephone will sign, and a voice that might be hers will say something that you cannot interpret before the connection crackles and is broken.
Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again.
Whenever it rains you will think of her. ”
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You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is lost before it reaches you. Late one night the telephone will sign, and a voice that might be hers will say something that you cannot interpret before the connection crackles and is broken.
Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again.
Whenever it rains you will think of her. ”
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