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Tara Hanks
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The MMM Girl: Marilyn Monroe, by Herself
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"I haven't read Villette, but I want to. Wuthering Heights is my favourite Bronte novel, followed by Wildfell Hall and Jane Eyre."
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Thoughts on Charlotte Bronte’s Villette
by Robin Dwyer-Hickey Charlotte Bronte is most famous for her novel Jane Eyre, which was a huge success in her lifetime and continues to inspire film and television adaptations to this day. In a relatively con... " Read more of this review » |
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| This is a lovely idea: a reissue of 8 early Fitzgerald stories, as they appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. These stories are not among my own favourites, but some will love them. (I recommend buying in paperback, as the artwork didn't show up wel...more | |
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| I'm a big fan of Braver's later novels on the JFK assassination, and Marilyn Monroe. 'Mr Lincoln's Wars' is his first novel, but for some reason it didn't draw me in. | |
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“Nothing lasts forever,' I said, flicking cigarette ash into a cut-glass tray. 'We all have a short time, to shine or just survive.”
― Tara Hanks, The MMM Girl: Marilyn Monroe, by Herself
― Tara Hanks, The MMM Girl: Marilyn Monroe, by Herself
“It was peaceful, the air crisp; flocks of geese and wild ducks roamed through grassland down by the water. For a moment my heart leapt, and I saw a future for myself. I was alone, and free at last, amongst the birds and trees, from earth to sky.”
― Tara Hanks, The MMM Girl: Marilyn Monroe, by Herself
― Tara Hanks, The MMM Girl: Marilyn Monroe, by Herself
“I closed my eyes. Long before I was in any movie, I was Norma Jeane. I decided I missed those days when I was penniless but still had hope.”
― Tara Hanks, The MMM Girl: Marilyn Monroe, by Herself
― Tara Hanks, The MMM Girl: Marilyn Monroe, by Herself
“That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.”
― Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado
― Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.”
― Mae West
― Mae West
“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.”
― Marilyn Monroe
― Marilyn Monroe
“No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”
― Madonna
― Madonna
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