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"Left this book at the office...can't get it. It too is on hold." — May 30, 2020 05:26PM
"Left this book at the office...can't get it. It too is on hold." — May 30, 2020 05:26PM
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by Ron Chernow
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“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
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“Fiction had never been Jackson's thing. Facts seemed challenging enough without making stuff up. What he discovered was that the great novels of the world were about three things - death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale.”
― Started Early, Took My Dog
― Started Early, Took My Dog
“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
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“Why is it that with women, some kink, some vulnerability of the sex, is always presumed to lie at the heart of things- as if they have no other life, no relevance as important as that which they have for us men?”
― All That I Am
― All That I Am
“you can't be a doctor. Only boys can be doctors. Leroy's got to be the doctor."
"You're full of shit, Spiegelglass, Leroy's dumber than I am. I got to be doctor because I'm the smart one and being a girl don't matter."
"You'll see. You think you can do what boys do but you're going to be a nurse, no two ways about it. It doesn't matter about brains, brains don't count. What counts is whether you're a boy or a girl."
I hauled off and belted her one.”
― Rubyfruit Jungle
"You're full of shit, Spiegelglass, Leroy's dumber than I am. I got to be doctor because I'm the smart one and being a girl don't matter."
"You'll see. You think you can do what boys do but you're going to be a nurse, no two ways about it. It doesn't matter about brains, brains don't count. What counts is whether you're a boy or a girl."
I hauled off and belted her one.”
― Rubyfruit Jungle
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