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How To Art: Bringing a Fancy Subject Down to Earth so We Can All Enjoy It

by Kate Bryan

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The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments

by Kelly Grovier

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An Opinionated Guide to Women Painters

by Lucy Davies

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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West

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“Anyway—because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next—and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis—at any time of night or day.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

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“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

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