The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
[originally published 1929]
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I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.
-Sylvia Plath
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I will leave such an imprint on your heart that anyone you entertain after me will have to know me in order to understand you.
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"Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else."
― William Faulkner
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Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality
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'Mutually obsessed with eachother but in a healthy way' kinda relationships>>>>>>
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I'm thirsty for scents and laughter, thirsty for new songs.
- Federico García Lorca
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"Never trust a writer who doesn't have too many books to read. Or a reader, for that matter," said Zelia
-Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust
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April 10, 1927
Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927
[volume 3]
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“I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day— spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free... I want, I want to think, to be omniscient.”
-Sylvia Plath written in 1949 at age 17
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“Is there anything better than iced coffee and a bookstore on a sunny day? I mean, aside from hot coffee and a bookstore on a rainy day.”
Emily Henry, Book Lovers
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I only write when I'm falling in love or falling apart.
-Rudy F.
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