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Edward Edward said: " This fits in perfectly with my second time through reading Powell’s dance. Early on, Spurling quotes a line from The Kindly Ones that also jumped out at me recently, “My father really hated clarity.” Interestingly, she attributes the statement direct ...more "

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Edward Edward said: " I keep having books I read in college days get elected for reading in the book club. Which means plenty of Proustian Floods of association and nostalgia. I recall laughing a lot when I first read this but recent rereads of classics have shown me some ...more "

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Louisa May Alcott
“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

Winston S. Churchill
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
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Aldous Huxley
“Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.”
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Oscar Wilde
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
Oscar Wilde

H.L. Mencken
“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”
H.L. Mencken

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