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“Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.” ― Kate Chopin (The Awakening) #quoteoftheday #TheStrand https://t.co/gzB5jiTMix

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"Lord Henry strolled across the room and began to stroke the head of a curious Java parrot, a large grey-plumaged bird, with pink crest and tail, that was balancing itself upon a bamboo perch." ― Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray) #quoteoftheday #TheStrand #WorldParrotDay https://t.co/OldrAfdxyW

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“This is reality, whether you like it or not-all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.” ― Willa Cather (My Ántonia) #quoteoftheday #TheStrand https://t.co/Yd1GygJBy0

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“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.” ― William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream) #quoteoftheday #TheStrand #HappyMidsummer https://t.co/ykAH3FjfPX

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“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.” —William Shakespeare, Macbeth #halloween2021

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Victor Hugo's Les Miserables contains a sentence that is 823 words long. However, this pales in comparison to Jonathan Coe's The Rotter's Club, which contains a 13,955 word sentence. Perhaps brevity is not the soul of all wit... #TheStrand #bookfactoftheday

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#DidYouKnow ❓ The Great Gatsby 🥂 wasn't initially a bestseller. It sold under 25,000 copies in F. Scott Fitzgerald's lifetime. Fitzgerald's last royalty check only totaled $13.13. 🥲 Today, Gatsby has sold over 30 million copies 📚 #funfact https://t.co/VUOJybX65y

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"Lord Henry strolled across the room and began to stroke the head of a curious Java parrot, a large grey-plumaged bird, with pink crest and tail, that was balancing itself upon a bamboo perch." ― Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray) #quoteoftheday #TheStrand #WorldParrotDay https://t.co/OldrAfdxyW

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“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” ― Virginia Woolf (A Room of One’s Own) #quoteoftheday #TheStrand https://t.co/Iz03vNrJFJ

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“I like good strong words that mean something…” -Louisa May Alcott (Little Women) #quoteoftheday #TheStrand