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What We Can Know

by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)

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Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

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Sofiakws said: " 2.5 stars

This took me ages to read... and yet I was so diligent about it! I don't know how I got through it - occasionally, there'd be an engaging section, but mostly, I would find myself disinterestedly rereading paragraphs and repeatedly losing my ...more "

Dec 02, 2017 11:43AM · see review

Sofiakws’s Quotes

“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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