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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

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 Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

Dec 11,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #Richard Wright #Black Boy

Yuppies in embryo, miming their parents’ manners. In twenty years, they’d have country houses and children with

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 Yuppies in embryo, miming their parents’ manners. In twenty years, they’d have country houses and children with

Dec 11,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #Lauren Groff #Fates and Furies

The lightness returned. That airless sensation of his body evaporating. Darline and Paris were fading, too. They were

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 The lightness returned. That airless sensation of his body evaporating. Darline and Paris were fading, too. They were

Dec 10,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #Edwidge Danticat #Everything Inside

I’m not sure what we’re running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if

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 I’m not sure what we’re running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if

Dec 09,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #Chuck Palahniuk #Invisible Monsters

People are built like houses inside — they have stairwells, spacious halls, vestibules that are always too weakly lit to

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 People are built like houses inside — they have stairwells, spacious halls, vestibules that are always too weakly lit to

Dec 09,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #Olga Tokarczuk #House of Day House of Night

We cannot force ourselves to love — or to withhold it. At best, we can curb our actions. The heart itself is beyond

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 We cannot force ourselves to love — or to withhold it. At best, we can curb our actions. The heart itself is beyond

Dec 08,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni #The Palace of Illusions

One of the odd things about being himself … was that there seemed to be several of him, that he wasn’t just one person but

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 One of the odd things about being himself … was that there seemed to be several of him, that he wasn’t just one person but

Dec 07,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #Paul Auster #4 3 2 1

The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.

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 The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.

Dec 06,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #Anne Tyler #Vinegar Girl

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.

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 If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.

Dec 06,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #Colson Whitehead #The Nickel Boys

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is

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 The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is

Dec 05,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #Milan Kundera #Slowness

She look so stylish it like the trees all round the house draw themself up tall for a better look.

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 She look so stylish it like the trees all round the house draw themself up tall for a better look.

Dec 04,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #Alice Walker #The Color Purple

I’ve been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a

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 I’ve been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a

Dec 01,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #haruki murakami #Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by

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 There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by

Nov 30,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #Sylvia Plath #The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Once you’re old enough to recognize a hole in yourself it’s too late for the hole to be filled.

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 Once you’re old enough to recognize a hole in yourself it’s too late for the hole to be filled.

Nov 29,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #Susan Choi #Trust Exercise

It’s a question of how we regard our situations, how we look and see where we are, and how we choose, if we can, when we

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 It’s a question of how we regard our situations, how we look and see where we are, and how we choose, if we can, when we

Nov 28,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #autumn #Ali Smith

My children know the truth about me but still tolerate me, so far.

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 My children know the truth about me but still tolerate me, so far.

Nov 26,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #zadie Smith #Intimations

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers

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 He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers

Nov 26,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #Gabriel García Márquez #love in the time of cholera

People are born every minute of their lives, and what they are in each of those minutes is what they are completely.

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 People are born every minute of their lives, and what they are in each of those minutes is what they are completely.

Nov 25,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #Rachel Kushner #Telex from Cuba

Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility

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 Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility

Nov 25,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #Andrew Sean Greer #The Confessions of Max Tivoli

His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can’t lift, something everybody knows he can’

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 His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can’t lift, something everybody knows he can’

Nov 24,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #Ken Kesey

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

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 Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Nov 23,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #anthony burgess #A Clockwork Orange

First of all, I must make it clear that this girl does not know herself apart from the fact that she goes on living

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 First of all, I must make it clear that this girl does not know herself apart from the fact that she goes on living

Nov 21,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #clarice lispector #The Hour of the Star

The adult female body was one big booby trap as far as I could tell. If there was a hole, something was bound to be shoved

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 The adult female body was one big booby trap as far as I could tell. If there was a hole, something was bound to be shoved

Nov 20,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #margaret atwood #The Testaments

The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side.

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 The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side.

Nov 19,2023

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#quotes #literature #books #quote #lit #Edwidge Danticat