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When I am laid in earth, may my wrongs create no trouble, no trouble in thy breast. Remember me! remember me! but ah! forget my fate. —HENRY PURCELL AND NAHUM TATE, Dido and Aeneas
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
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“It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word”
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“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― The Fran Lebowitz Reader
― The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum
“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!”
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
College admission and American culture
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— last activity Jun 13, 2025 12:54PM
A group dedicated to discussing books about the American college admission process and American collegiate/high school culture.
MK & TCK Book Club
— 188 members
— last activity Jan 09, 2023 04:14AM
This group is no longer active. Original description: Join us as we read books by and about missionary kids (MKs), third culture kids (TCKs), their fa ...more
Parke’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Parke’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Business, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science, Young-adult, and essays
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