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Bethypage42
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I cant spoil anything cuz Im only 5 minutes in, but I already understand Im in the presence of greatness. Kingsolver came out swinging. I have been stalling on this one; Appalachian drug addicts being a fairly depressing and unappealing plot. But how ...more "
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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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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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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
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
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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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“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
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