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J. J. said: " October, 2024. We begin.
This is about the Rougon Macquart cycle, all of it, twenty novels-- but the Oxford World Classics paperback editions, not kindle or ebook. From what I could see, no hardback edition [Everyman, Modern, etc] published the entire
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George W. Bush
“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”
George W. Bush

Gustave Flaubert
“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Franz Kafka
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
Franz Kafka

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
John F. Kennedy

Flannery O'Connor
“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
Flannery O'Connor

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