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“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
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“If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either”
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“Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.”
― Speak, Memory
― Speak, Memory
“New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous.
But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.”
― America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.”
― America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
Lisa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lisa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,358 books
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352 friends
129 books
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24 friends
1,296 books
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20 friends
88 books
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32 friends
48 books
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33 friends
2,429 books
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159 friends
3 books
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263 friends
46 books
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58 friends
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Favorite Genres
Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Classics, Cooking, Fiction, Food, Literary Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry
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