Marissa
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High Rising
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It is astounding, Laura, how loudly Shakespearian actors can talk, and yet be perfectly unintelligible.’
“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
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“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.”
― Parnassus on Wheels
― Parnassus on Wheels
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Emma M. Lion Appreciation Society
— 362 members
— last activity Mar 03, 2026 03:57AM
A place to discuss our love for The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, The Q, and any and all other masterpieces written by Beth Brower! Feel free t ...more
Close Reads - Unofficial
— 212 members
— last activity Jan 11, 2023 06:00AM
A group for the Close Reads podcast
Marissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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