Leah Worthy

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Philip Roth by Burton Silverman

"I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists." -PR, Deception

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Thomas Buchanan Read

"Art is long, and Time is fleeting" -HWL, "A Psalm of Life"

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Nathaniel Hawthorne by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

"Easy reading is damn hard writing." -NH

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Edith Wharton by Edward Harrison

"True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision." -EW

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Mark Twain by John White Alexander

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." -MT

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Henry James by Jacques-Emile Blanche

"We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art." -HJ, "The Middle Years"

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John Ashbery by Fairfield Porter

"Everything was spotless in our little house of desire" -JA, "Wakefulness"

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Jhumpa Lahiri by Raymond Elman
"After a crossing, the known shore becomes the opposite side: here becomes there." -JL, In Other Words
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Toni Morrison by Robert McCurdy
“definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” -TM, Beloved
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Donald Barthelme by Elaine de Kooning
“Fragments are the only forms I trust.” -DB, "See the Moon?"
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Laura Day’s Practical Intuition in Love: Season 5 Episode 7 #BooksOnFriends #Books

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Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre: Season 5 Episode 9 #BooksOnFriends #Books

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Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights: Season 5 Episode 9 #BooksOnFriends #Books

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When Joey hugs their pet chicken a little too enthusiastically, Chandler says, "Easy Lennie," a reference to Steinbeck's character in Of Mice and Men. Season 3 Episode 21 #BooksOnFriends #Books

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Robert Munsch's Love You Forever: Season 10 Episode 4 #BooksOnFriends #books

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Dostoyevsky's The Idiot: Season 3 Episode 14 #BooksOnFriends #books

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Studs Terkel's Race: Season 3 Episode 13 #BooksOnFriends #books

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Ayn Rand's Anthem: Season 4 Episode 5 #BooksOnFriends #books

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Margery Williams' The Velveteen Rabbit: Season 4 Episode 6 #BooksOnFriends #books

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Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird: Season 5 Episode 17 #BooksOnFriends #books