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“Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. ”
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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ”
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“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never. And I don't know why I should be asked to explain your life to you. We have splendid writers to do that, but I am not one of them. It is that business of being universal, a word hopelessly stripped of meaning for me. Faulkner wrote what I suppose could be called regional literature and had it published all over the world. That's what I wish to do. If I tried to write a universal novel, it would be water. Behind this question is the suggestion that to write for black people is somehow to diminish the writing. From my perspective there are only black people. When I say 'people,' that's what I mean.”
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Mair’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mair’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
755 books
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31 friends
434 books
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122 friends
42 books
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11 friends
582 books
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29 friends
274 books
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37 friends
628 books
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55 friends
60 books
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124 friends
3 books
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5 friends
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