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“Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.”
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“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
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“Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”
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“Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.”
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“Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.”
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Melanie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Melanie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,576 books
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38 friends
1,570 books
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77 friends
1,200 books
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135 friends
864 books
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7 friends
2,009 books
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144 friends
1,041 books
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154 friends
819 books
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453 friends
1,099 books
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115 friends
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