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Bethypage42
rated a book it was amazing
Reading for the 3rd time
read in August 2022
Bethypage42 said:
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I first read IJ in 2001, and it quickly became the book I loved to hate. Every page was fascinating, but I had NO idea what was going on. I pushed on, thinking "surely, this will all come together in the end". When it was over I was practically in pa
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“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
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“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
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