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“The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.”
― The Walking Drum: A Novel
― The Walking Drum: A Novel
“It is a poor sort of man who is content to be spoon-fed knowledge that has been filtered through the canon of religious or political belief, and it is a poor sort of man who will permit others to dictate what he may or may not learn.”
― The Walking Drum
― The Walking Drum
“Must one seek something? I seek to be seeking, as I learn to be learning. Each book is an adventure as is each day’s horizon.”
― The Walking Drum: A Novel
― The Walking Drum: A Novel
“No one liked to think about the fact that the water in that river was infected with the blood and bile of persecuted women, unhappy women; they drank it every day.”
― Into the Water
― Into the Water
“Can you see the future, Kerbouchard?"
"Who would wish to? Our lives hold a veil between anticipation and horror. Anticipation is the carrot suspended before the jackass to keep him moving forward. Horror is what he would see if he took his eyes off the carrot.”
― The Walking Drum
"Who would wish to? Our lives hold a veil between anticipation and horror. Anticipation is the carrot suspended before the jackass to keep him moving forward. Horror is what he would see if he took his eyes off the carrot.”
― The Walking Drum
Kathleen’s 2025 Year in Books
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Adult Fiction, African American, Biography, Book Club, Chick-lit, Children's, Classics, Cookbooks, Crime, Ebooks, Erotica, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Mystery, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Romance, Science fiction, Suspense, Spirituality, Travel, War, and paranormal-mystery
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