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| I generally do not watch movies before reading its corresponding book, but with The Devil Wears Prada, I broke that rule. And since I had already seen the movie, I felt obliged to read the book as well. I must say, I enjoyed the movie more--it made j...more | |
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| I simply could not continue reading this book. Maybe I just don't understand whale hunting, or maybe I'm just naturally opposed to books of the sea, but I found this extremely boring. | |
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“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
“Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had.”
― Anna Quindlen
― Anna Quindlen
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
“We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
“Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard Baruch
― Bernard Baruch
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