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You know you’re going to get taxed a lot anyway, so you may as well just focus on doing what you love, rather than what’s going to land you a massive salary.’ ‘So there’s less incentive to sacrifice career fulfilment for the almighty
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“A woman in love—a woman loved properly in return—wears her happiness in her eyes, on her cheeks, on her lips, wears it like an invisible garment, a glorious garment that gives her an aura everyone can see.”
― Love Me, Marietta
― Love Me, Marietta
“Without plenty, the wealthy lack compassion for the poor, hoarding without sharing. Without law, the strong bully the weak, stealing by force.”
― Naamah's Kiss
― Naamah's Kiss
“Yet even as the wind stirs your petals, flowers fall. My flowers are eternal, my songs live forever. I lift them in offering; I, a singer. I cast them to the wind, I spill them. The flowers become gold, they come to dwell inside the palace of eternity.”
― Naamah's Blessing
― Naamah's Blessing
“Books, too, had hearts, though they were not the same as people’s, and a book’s heart could be broken: she had seen it happen before.”
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“He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his lower jaw jutting out, giving him the look of a wounded, vengeful boxer, grinding his teeth so loud you could hear it across the room.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
Writer's Paradise
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Last year this group was our serious writing group (somewhat :D). This year, it's our party place! Come in and join in all the fun! Create a topic, an ...more
The Milwaukee Writers Workshop Library
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— last activity Jan 27, 2008 10:05PM
This is a list of the books available for borrowing by the sponsored members of the Milwaukee Writers Workshop
When I grow up I want to be a WRITER!
— 129 members
— last activity Aug 08, 2009 10:31PM
When you were little did you want to be a novelist? Forget the whole idea of wanting to become a teacher, a doctor, an actress.....you could care less ...more
Jasper Fforde's Books: Thursday Next + Other Books
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— last activity Aug 12, 2022 09:33AM
To Discuss the Delightful world of Jasper Fforde and the Thursday Next series, and his other books too.
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