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This book had me hooked, right up until the end, when I was disappointed in the summarizing aspects of the narrative. It felt so much less passionate and real than Austen's other books do. Right up until the end, though, I really loved it.
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“It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.”
― I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven
― I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven
“I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.”
― A Moveable Feast
― A Moveable Feast
“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”
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“I wonder,” wrote Eleanor Roosevelt, “whether we have decided to hide behind neutrality? It is safe, perhaps, but I am not always sure it is right to be safe. . . . Every time a nation which has known freedom loses it, other free nations lose something, too.”
― Prague Winter
― Prague Winter
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