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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
“To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One must also have a lot of life experience, travel to exotic locations and live among the local people. Yet most importantly a writer needs the determination to keep at their writing regardless of what others might say or think about it”
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“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
“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
“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
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