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quote 2015-05-23 18:09

Bookloving author and publisher

“Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.”

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

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quote 2014-08-08 11:51

Nyx Book Reviews

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

Vladimir Nabokov Lolita Literary Fiction Adult Fiction

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quote 2014-06-23 14:21

Bookloving writer

Henrietta was a literary woman, and the great advantage of being a literary woman was that you could go everywhere and do everything.

Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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quote 2014-01-08 18:50

Open Road Integrated Media

To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.

—The Eternal Wonder by Pearl S. Buck

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quote 2013-09-26 03:26

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Isola Pribby - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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