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Tue 11 Sep 2018

Read

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Random quote of the day:

â€œRead widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.â€

â€”Joyce Carol Oates, The Faith of A Writer

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Mon 10 Sep 2018

Honor

Posted by PJ under honor, quote of the day, reputation
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â€œReputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.â€

â€”Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Companion

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Wed 5 Sep 2018

Novelists

Posted by PJ under novels, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

â€œNovelists secrete a certain BO, which only other novelists detectâ€¦â€

â€”Walker Percy, The Paris Review, Issue 103, Summer 1987

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Tue 4 Sep 2018

Pieces

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â€œYou have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives.â€

â€”Luis BuÃ±uel, My Last Breath

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