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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

by Vitezslav Nezval

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Jordan is currently reading: Valerie and Her Week of Wonders by Vitezslav Nezval	My rating:
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“I have tried to be honest with you, although I suppose that you would really have been more interested in my not being honest. Some of these things happened, and some were dreams. They were all true, as I understood truth. They are all real, as I understood reality.”
― Penelope Mortimer, The Pumpkin Eater

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“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
― Audre Lorde

850 people liked it

“No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat's cradle is nothing but a bunch of X's between somebody's hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those X's . . ."
"And?"
"No damn cat, and no damn cradle.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle

tags: humor

76 people liked it

“Rochester: "Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."

Jane: "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: freedom , inspirational , literature

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“You took the best, so why not take the rest?”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

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