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How fast the evening had passed, with its newnesses boxed one within the next like constantly opening flashes of excitement. (book 3 chapter 5)

— Jo Sinclair Sing at My Wake (1951)

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The first spring after the death is unbearable. Its inexorable, complete awakening. Its compulsive memories. Its intolerable mockery of beauty.

Anna Teller was the only refugee on the plane from Munich to New York.

Anna Teller (1960)

The word Depression faded from the American air, but in her it would never fade completely, she knew that. (chapter Five, p177)

Wasteland (1948)

They started off the porch, and [she] felt the poems moving with her into the street, like a singing. (p309)

The Changelings (1955)

It was night in her lovely Ballroom, where a dream was completely safe. (book 4 chapter 3)

Sing at My Wake (1951)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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