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“Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control.”
― The Solid Form Of Language: An Essay On Writing And Meaning
― The Solid Form Of Language: An Essay On Writing And Meaning
“I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.”
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“The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.”
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“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
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“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. ”
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Britta’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Britta’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,699 books
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97 friends
3,673 books
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144 friends
278 books
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152 friends
1,503 books
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158 friends
372 books
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100 friends
1,081 books
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29 friends
110 books
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50 friends
86 books
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87 friends
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Favorite Genres
Adult Fiction, Biography, Chick-lit, Classics, Cookbooks, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Science, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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