Renee

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The Thirty-Nine Steps

by John Buchan

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The Eyes & the Impossible

by Dave Eggers

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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

by Katherine Rundell

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Renee’s Notes & Highlights

Lovely War by Julie Berry

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“No one can love me,” she says. “No one.” “What do you mean?” “That is the price,” she tells him, “of being the goddess of love.”

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Renee’s Quotes

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

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“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

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“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints

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“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

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“Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

tags: sabbath, sunday-life

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