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“The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides is an American novelist known for his unique narrative style and profound portrayal of complex family relationships. His works often explore identity, genetics, and human emotions. more

“It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”

World Mind Humans Language Novel Human Nature Humour Wit Chosen Variety Thorough Power Of The Mind Thorough Knowledge Fiction Novels

Author:Jane Austen

“Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.”

Book Song Down And Library Singers Locked Shelves Liver Locked Up Chained

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.”

Thinking Writing Effort Extraordinary Veins Extraordinary Things Tiredness

Book:The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941

Source: The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941

“No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.”

Thinking Knows Children Rude Having Children

Author:Jo Brand

“But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.”

Ifs Knows Book Strong Latin Shelves

Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?”

Play Night Quiet Tricks

Author:Bob Dylan

“There's nothing better when something comes and hits you and you think 'YES'!”

Thinking Epiphany

Author:J. K. Rowling

“It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.”

Ifs Heart Reality Voice Ocean Notion Pity Obscure Wrecks Console Oysters Refrigerators Unfathomable

Book:Book of Longing

Source: Book of Longing

“Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.”

Conscience

Book:Void of course: poems 1994-1997

Source: Void of course: poems 1994-1997

“I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.”

Men World Littles Persons Ideas Order Found Wise Letters Wiser Be A Man Loving Person

Book:The Cornel West Reader

Source: The Cornel West Reader

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