Juniper

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Juniper’s Bookshelves

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canadian‎ (358)
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classics‎ (144)
arc‎ (141)
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memoir‎ (108)
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2014-books‎ (100)
2018-books‎ (100)
firstreads-giveaways‎ (94)
women-write-big-books‎ (85)
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historical-fiction‎ (80)

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biography‎ (50)
scifi-fantasy‎ (43)
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quiet-novels‎ (19)
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on-writing‎ (16)
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Juniper’s Quotes

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: failure, perseverance, tenacity

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“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression

6869 likes

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

3098 likes

“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: morality, usefulness

1726 likes

“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

tags: annoyance, writing

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