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“If I could take people out of their heads for a little while, if I could give them a dose of fantasy, that was all that mattered. You can't put a price on escape.”
― The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
― The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
“But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.”
― Ultraviolet
― Ultraviolet
“What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.”
― Lit
― Lit
“A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.”
― Flaubert's Parrot
― Flaubert's Parrot
“I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution. but we cannot always do what is absolutely best. those with whom we act, entertaining different views, have the power and the right of carrying them into practice. truth advances, & error recedes step by step only; and to do to our fellow-men the most good in our power, we must lead where we can, follow where we cannot, and still go with them, watching always the favorable moment for helping them to another step.
[Comment on establishing Jefferson's University of Virginia, a secular college, in a letter to Thomas Cooper 7 October 1814]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
[Comment on establishing Jefferson's University of Virginia, a secular college, in a letter to Thomas Cooper 7 October 1814]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
The YA Book Club
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This is a book club for all those who love Young Adult books. We know you love to read, and so do we. We will have optional group reads each month. If ...more
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