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Basmah
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“They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space."
"Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?”
― A Wrinkle in Time
"Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?”
― A Wrinkle in Time
“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.”
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“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
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“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
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Basmah’s 2025 Year in Books
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55 friends
344 books
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352 books
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820 books
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164 books
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279 books
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