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Francine Prose , scrittrice statunitense.

✵ 1. Aprile 1947
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“È facile essere felici in Sicilia, ma è un'operazione che richiede un adattamento biologico oltre che culturale: bisogna imparare a vivere il tempo alla maniera siciliana.”

Francine Prose

da Odissea siciliana

Francine Prose: Frasi in inglese

“We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.”

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Francine Prose

“The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.”

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Francine Prose

Origine: Goldengrove

“I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.”

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Francine Prose

Origine: Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

“Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.”

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Francine Prose

Origine: Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

“You can assume that if a writer's work has survived for centuries, there are reasons why this is so, explanations that have nothing to do with a conspiracy of academics plotting to resuscitate a zombie army of dead white males.”

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Francine Prose libro Reading Like a Writer

Reading Like a Writer, ch. 2, p. 15 (2006)

“With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined and booby-trapped landscape, of cold nights and hot days, of soaking monsoons and rice paddies, and of the possibility of being shot, like Ted Lavender, suddenly and out of nowhere: not only in the middle of a sentence but in the midst of a subordinate clause.”

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Francine Prose libro Reading Like a Writer

Reading Like a Writer, ch. 3, p. 57 (2006) (referring to a passage in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien)

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