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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."
(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
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(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
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“I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.”
― The Scorpio Races
― The Scorpio Races
“Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.”
― Tortilla Flat
― Tortilla Flat
“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”
― A Moveable Feast
― A Moveable Feast
Angela’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Angela’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,255 books
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304 friends
335 books
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82 friends
45 books
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25 friends
70 books
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70 friends
844 books
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16 friends
65 books
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133 friends
56 books
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123 friends
86 books
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53 friends
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