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“The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
― Marginalia
― Marginalia
“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
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“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
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Adrianne’s 2025 Year in Books
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