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Novels don't really teach you very much about how to live your life
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Novels don't really teach you very much about how to live your life

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Naomi K
Jun 28, 2013
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I've read way more novels than most people. And if there's one thing that you'd think a novel would be good it, it'd be teaching you about the emotional life of a person. But it's actually very bad at that. Other than from my own experience, I know almost nothing about what day-to-day emotions are supposed to feel like. How often do people wake up just …

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