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Beatrice K. Otto

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Inspired by ancient biographies of Chinese court jesters, Beatrice's first book was Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World, which won the American Association of Publishers Award for Outstanding Book of the Year in its class.

She's always loved books and remembers leafing through them even before she could read. Some children's picture and story books, and vivid Time-Life photographic books.

In addition to reading and writing all she can, she is on a mission to highlight bright writing, creating a website to celebrate thousands of moving, striking or amusing quotations and fresh, original phrasing and metaphors, along with the books in which she found them: https://www.writingredux.com. Her reviews on Goodreads are all 5-st
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Steinbeck spent some time travelling around the Soviet Union in 1946, accompanied by the photographer Robert Capa.  His Russian Journal is a joyous blend of wry humour, piercing observation, and sensitive comment.  Here he describes a kindly man sitting next to him on a plane flight.

At last the plane took off, and as it did, a man sitting next to me opened his suitcase, cut off half a pound of

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“I look upon fine phrases as a lover. - John Keats”
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